Desdemona
About Desdemona
A husband and wife are cast as Othello and Desdemona. Off the stage, their own marriage starts to follow the jealousy in the play. Valdemar Psilander and Thyra Reimann play the couple.
Cast & crew
More about Desdemona
August Blom directed. Louis Møller wrote it. Nordisk released it on 25 May 1912. It runs 23 minutes. The Internet Archive copy is filed under the alternate title attached to the identifier silent-for-bent-tppe-aka-desdemona.
Themes
Making
Møller sets the jealousy in a theater marriage rather than in Venice. The stage roles and the home start to match.
Music
Silent.
Notes
- The billed company around Psilander includes Aage Lorentzen, Doris Langkilde, Franz Skondrup, Julie Henriksen, Nicolai Brechling, Otto Lagoni, Zanny Petersen, and Frederik Jacobsen.
- The plot uses the Othello story as the play the couple is performing.
- It is a silent short, not a full staging of Shakespeare.
- Blom was directing at Nordisk in 1912, with Psilander as the lead.
Scenes
- The couple play the murderous jealousy of Othello, and the same suspicion shows up at home.
Influenced by
- Shakespeare’s Othello
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-for-bent-tppe-aka-desdemona)
