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When Harry Levine, an aging, unsuccessful Greenwich Village writer, is fired from his job as restaurant doorman, he calls on friend and mentor Jake, ostensibly to collect a long-standing debt.


“Envy, greed, jealousy and love.”
The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.

Laurence Fishburne
Othello

Irène Jacob
Desdemona

Kenneth Branagh
Iago

Nathaniel Parker
Cassio

Michael Maloney
Roderigo

Anna Patrick
Emilia

Nicholas Farrell
Montano

Indra Ové
Bianca

Michael Sheen
Lodovico

John Savident
2nd Senator
Othello is a drama film released in 1995 exploring themes of jealousy, based on play or musical, friends, the moors (people). Directed by Oliver Parker, it stars Laurence Fishburne, Irène Jacob, Kenneth Branagh. The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.
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