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Il Mercante di Venezia
(The Merchant of Venice)
(1911) Italy
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. / Released February 1911. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 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: Print exists in the British Film Institute National Archive film archive [incomplete 35mm hand-tinted positive].

Current rights holder: (unknown)

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

Listing updated: 19 December 2023.

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

Home video: DVD.