Based on Shakespeare’s play, Verdi’s opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, “…the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon”. Believing Otello has promoted the fast-rising Cassio over himself, Iago plots to destroy both Cassio and Otello. Iago convinces the jealous Otello that his beautiful wife Desdemona is unfaithful, and that Cassio is her lover. Jealousy is followed by tragedy, then retribution, “Has Heaven no more thunderbolts?”
Category: Drama
Drama
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The Secret Session
While a business man is driving home, he is stopped by a pregnant woman who asks him to take her to hospital to deliver her baby. A few days later, the woman claims the baby is his.
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House on Fire
In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work
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My Case
Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part – a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the scenes read excerpts from Beckett works), but in the end the director brilliantly performs the same material of the avant-garde exercise. Surprisingly, a joke, repeated three times, each time everything sounds fresh and develops into an almost verbatim adaptation of the biblical “Book of Job” – a spectacular point in a parable about how hard to empathize with other people’s misery, when you have your own.
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Jungle Escape
In the 90s, Kuomintang troups rejected by Chiang Kai-shek live in the forest on the border of China
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A Human Promise
An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to her death.
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Al Awbash
Six human wolves cut off a husband and wife on their wedding night, killing the husband and raping the wife who suffers a nervous breakdown. After that, the security services fail to identify the perpetrators. While the incident is known by journalist Ahmed Azmi, he sympathizes with the wife he has known since she was a child.
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Trial on the Road
Shot in 1971 but banned until 1986, this distinctly Russian war story takes place in 1942 behind enemy lines. A regiment of partisans captures former Red Army lieutenant Lazarev who is dressed in a German uniform. He’s a Nazi defector and collaborator but now desires to switch back and fight with Russian partisans.
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Mauvais Sang
Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner’s son to help them break into a laboratory and steal the vaccine against STBO, a sexually transmitted disease that is sweeping the country. It’s spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment.
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Perros de la noche
A young man forces his sister to work as a prostitute to earn enough money to survive.