Othello (1969)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Othello |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Walter Felsenstein (theater) Georg Mielke (film) |
| script | Walter Felsenstein Georg Mielke |
| production |
DEFA on behalf of the DFF |
| music | Giuseppe Verdi |
| camera | Otto Merz |
| cut | Thea Richter |
| occupation | |
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Othello is a studio recording by DEFA , commissioned by German television , of Walter Felsenstein's production of the opera of the same name in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi at the Komische Oper Berlin .
action
Since this is the stage production, see: Othello
production
The opera was recorded as a color film in the DEFA studios for feature films in Potsdam-Babelsberg. The plot is based on the text version by Arrigo Boito based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare in the German translation by Walter Felsenstein. The first broadcast on television took place on December 24, 1969 in the second program of the DFF .
The orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin was under the direction of Kurt Masur . Dieter Hänsel took over the rehearsal of the choir soloists . The stage set created Alfred Tolle and costumes by Helga Scherff . The set design and the costumes were based on the stage design by Rudolf Heinrich .
The film is available on DVD.
criticism
Hans Konrad said in the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland : “This TV color film was intended as a documentation of a stage production. It has become more than just archiving a famous performance. Through the consistent musical use of filmic means to clarify and specify the inner development of the plot, it became a documentation of a Felsenstein director's conception and thus a 'music film' in the sense of musical theater. "Mimosa Künzel wrote in the Neue Zeit :" As color production experienced we Walter Felsenstein's special television adaptation of Verdi's 'Othello', in the already internationally famous production with the ensemble of the Komische Oper Berlin: figuratively polished down to the last detail, of fascinating musical brilliance. This performance, which was created in close working contact with the experienced television music director Georg Mielke, sets standards for future special screen operas. ”The lexicon of international films wrote that this is a document of Walter Felsenstein's outstanding directorial art , who knew how to stage intimate scenes as well as crowd scenes with confidence and how to implement them on film.
Web links
- Othello at filmportal.de
- Felsenstein im Babylon on berlin.de
Individual evidence
- ^ "Music theater on color television" in Neues Deutschland from December 28, 1969, p. 4
- ^ "Magic of fairy tales in the ballet" in Neue Zeit of December 28, 1969, p
- ↑ Othello. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .