Movie
1995
Othello is a 1995 drama film based on William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name. It was directed by Oliver Parker and stars Laurence Fishburne as Othello, Irène Jacob as Desdemona, and Kenneth Branagh as Iago. This is the first cinematic reproduction of the play released by a major studio that casts an African American actor to play the role of Othello, although low-budget independent films of the play starring…
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In 16th Century Europe was ravaged by religious wars and people, being too busy with slaughtering their fellow man over different interpretations of Bible, paid little attention to exotic issues like race. William Shakespaeare thus couldn't have known what kind of problems would his play *Othello* create for interpreters of his work in later centuries, when the idea of black man marrying white woman became taboo in…More
