Filming Othello - Excerpt
In “Filming ‘Othello,’” made for West German television in the 1970s, Welles explains that he had endeavored to show not only Othello’s insane jealousy of his wife, Desdemona, but “a whole world in collapse.” In a sense that world was Welles’s. The movie is founded on dislocation. It was the first film Welles made after leaving Hollywood for Europe. Shot piecemeal over a period of three or more years in Venice, Tuscany, Rome and the walled city of Essaouira (then known as Mogador) on Morocco’s Atlantic coast, it is a work of supreme pragmatism. Stranded without costumes, Welles invented a lengthy Turkish bath sequence using a local fish market.
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