Merchant Of Venice, The 
Category: Drama
Run time: 127 minutes
Director: Michael Radford
Starring: Al Pacino, Allan Corduner, Jeremy Irons, John Sessions, Joseph Fiennes, Mackenzie Crook
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Adaptation of Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice - in which a man gets himself in debt to Shylock, a money-lender who demands a pound of flesh if he cannot repay the loan. Shylock has grown wealthy through the abomination of money-lending.. the only profession open to Jewish businessmen of that time, as Christians were forbidden to do so, by their religious law. Thusly, Shylock faces indignity and danger when he ventures beyond the Jewish quarter, where, routinely, he meets upon intolerance. In the same city, though in a different world, lives Antonio, a Christian merchant beset by worry over the fate of his trading vessels and his increasing isolation from his young, carefree, best friend Bassanio. The younger man has fallen in love with the beautiful Portia, and seeks to go abroad to win her hand. When Antonio, cash-strapped but still possessed of good credit, stakes Bassanio for a loan of three thousand ducats from Shylock, a bond is sealed, the risk of which is one pound of Antonio's flesh. So when Antonio goes into debt to Shylock, now agonized as his daughter has runaway with a Christian, the angst-ridden moneylender demands a pound of his flesh...
Category: Drama
Run time: 127 minutes
Director: Michael Radford
Starring: Al Pacino, Allan Corduner, Jeremy Irons, John Sessions, Joseph Fiennes, Mackenzie Crook
Visit
the Official WebsiteAdaptation of Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice - in which a man gets himself in debt to Shylock, a money-lender who demands a pound of flesh if he cannot repay the loan. Shylock has grown wealthy through the abomination of money-lending.. the only profession open to Jewish businessmen of that time, as Christians were forbidden to do so, by their religious law. Thusly, Shylock faces indignity and danger when he ventures beyond the Jewish quarter, where, routinely, he meets upon intolerance. In the same city, though in a different world, lives Antonio, a Christian merchant beset by worry over the fate of his trading vessels and his increasing isolation from his young, carefree, best friend Bassanio. The younger man has fallen in love with the beautiful Portia, and seeks to go abroad to win her hand. When Antonio, cash-strapped but still possessed of good credit, stakes Bassanio for a loan of three thousand ducats from Shylock, a bond is sealed, the risk of which is one pound of Antonio's flesh. So when Antonio goes into debt to Shylock, now agonized as his daughter has runaway with a Christian, the angst-ridden moneylender demands a pound of his flesh...
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