Othello

Promote someone else to the rank of lieutenant? Over Iago's dead body! And more pointedly over the dead bodies of nearly everyone ensnared in Iago's plot of revenge. Jealousy passion misplaced trust: The themes of Shakespeare's towering tragedy permeate this fresh Othello from writer/director Oliver Parker (An Ideal Husband). Kenneth Branagh (Iago) Irene Jacob (Desdemona) and Laurence Fishburne as the title-role warrior who ruled armies but not his own heart play the principals in this tale set in Renaissance Venice - yet belonging to the ages. The Moor who "loved not wisely but too well" commands attention now and for generations to come in this version played and filmed both wisely and well.

Director: Oliver Parker
Producer: David Barron
Producer: Luc Roeg
Actor: Irène Jacob
Actor: Laurence Fishburne
Actor: Irene Jacob
Actor: Kenneth Branagh
Actor: Nathaniel Parker
Actor: Michael Maloney
Actor: Indra Ove
Actor: Michael Sheen
Actor: Andre Oumansky
Actor: John Savident
Actor: Gabriele Ferzetti
Actor: André Oumansky
Actor: Indra Ové
Actor: Anna Patrick
Actor: Nicholas Farrell
Actor: Philip Locke