Otello
|Otello
Status: Released
Runtime: 118
Release Date: 04/09/1986
Origin Language: fr
Origin Country: US - IT - NL
Languages: Italian
Production: Italian International FilmThe Cannon GroupGolan-Globus Productions
Countries: ItalyNetherlandsUnited States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0 (0)
Drama
Music
Based on Shakespeare's play, Verdi's opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, "...the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon". Believing Otello has promoted the fast-rising Cassio over himself, Iago plots to destroy both Cassio and Otello. Iago convinces the jealous Otello that his beautiful wife Desdemona is unfaithful, and that Cassio is her lover. Jealousy is followed by tragedy, then retribution, "Has Heaven no more thunderbolts?"
