| Othello | |
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| Directed by | Oliver Parker |
| Screenplay by | Oliver Parker |
| Based on | Othello by William Shakespeare |
| Produced by | Luc Roeg David Barron |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | David Johnson |
| Edited by | Tony Lawson |
| Music by | Charlie Mole |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Releasing (Select territories) Rank-Castle Rock/Turner (United Kingdom)[1] |
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Running time | 124 minutes |
| Countries | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $11 million |
| Box office | $2.8 million (United States) |
Othello is a 1995 drama film based on William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name. It was directed by Oliver Parker and stars Laurence Fishburne as Othello, Irène Jacob as Desdemona, and Kenneth Branagh as Iago. This is the first cinematic reproduction of the play released by a major studio that casts an African American actor to play the role of Othello, although low-budget independent films of the play starring Ted Lange[2] and Yaphet Kotto[3] predated it.