The Merchant of Venice - Bregenzer Festspiele (2014)
Set in Venice during the Renaissance, the drama centres on Bassanio, a young nobleman who would like to court the beautiful Portia but doesn‘t have the money to travel to her country estate, so he asks the merchant Antonio for help. Antonio‘s wealth is tied up in maritime trade but he offers to procure the sum Bassanio needs from the Jewish money lender Shylock. Shylock hates Antonio for being so contemptuous in his treatment of Jews, and therefore stipulates that if the debt is not repaid within three months, the penalty will be a pound of Antonio‘s own flesh...
- Released
- 2014-08-26
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Runtime
- 165 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Keith Warner
Cast
- Christopher Ainslie as Antonio, a Merchant of Venice
- Charles Workman as Bassanio, a friend of Antonio
- Adrian Clarke as Salarino, a friend of Antonio and Bassanio
- Jason Bridges as Lorenzo, in love with Jessica
- Adrian Eröd as Shylock, a rich Jew
- Kathryn Lewek as Jessica, Shylock's daughter
- Magdalena Anna Hofmann as Portia, a rich heiress
- Verena Gunz as Nerissa, Portia's waiting-maid
- Hanna Herfurtner as A boy
- Norman Patzke as Solanio, a friend of Antonio and Bassanio
- David Stout as Gratiano, a friend of Antonio and Bassanio
- Juliusz Kubiak as Prince of Aragon