The Merchant of Venice
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Production year1953
French release25/09/1953
Runtime1 h 42 min
Synopsis
The central role of the usurious Shylock is played by Michel Simon, who manages to convey both the menace and the pathos of the character without lapsing into a broad Jewish stereotype. Portia, the heroine who disguises herself as a male attorney to save her beloved from Shylock's wrath, is well played by Andree Debar. The Shylock and Portia scenes are left intact: most of the cutting and rewriting takes place during the rather less-interesting romantic subplot. One of the pluses of La Marchand de Venice is that it was shot on location in the titular Italian city.
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Credits
Director (1)
Actors (6)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Elysée Films
- Foreign production company : Venturini Film
- French distribution : Discifilm
Full credits (9)
- Adaptation : Pierre Billon, Louis Ducreux, Federico Zardi
- Screenwriters : Pierre Billon, Louis Ducreux, Federico Zardi
- Director of Photography : Arturo Gallea
- Music Composer : Gianni Fusco
- Assistant Director : Giorgio Capitani
- Sound Recordist : René-Christian Forget
- Foreign Producer : Giorgio Venturini
- Author of original work : William Shakespeare
- Producer : Eugène Tucherer
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Literary adaptation
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Italy, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
