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Il Mercante di Venezia
(The Merchant of Venice)
(1910) Italian
B&W : Short film
Directed by Gerolamo Lo Savio

Cast: Ermete Novelli [Shylock], Francesca Bertini [Jessica], Olga Giannini Novelli [Portia]

Film d’Arte Italiana production. / From the play The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The play was previously filmed as The Merchant of Venice (1908). The play was subsequently filmed as The Merchant of Venice (1912).

Drama: Historical.

Survival Status: Incomplete print exists in the National Film Archive of the British Film Institute film archive [35mm hand-tinted positive].

Keywords: Authors: William Shakespeare (1564?-1616)

Listing updated: 29 January 2009.

References: Film viewing : Ball-Shakespeare p. 160b.

Home video: DVD.

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