Komodiya Oshibok (1978) -- film adaptation of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Ronan Paterson (University of Teesside)

Ed. by Ema Vyroubalova, Trinity College Dublin
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Domains

Cinema/ Film/ TV

Dates

Date of occurrence 1978

Places

Russia (Location)
England (Involved)

Genres and Modes

Adaptation
Comedy

Adapted from William Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors. Directed by Vadim Gauzner, screenplay by Fridrikh Gorensteyn. Cast includes Mikhail Kosakov, Mikhail Kononov, Olga Antonova, Natalya Danilova. Russian, colour, 2 parts, 1.03.48, 1.02.58

Although there have been television productions filmed in the studio, and The Boys From Syracuse (1940) is a 20th- century musical based on the play, Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors has never been made as a film by anyone in the West. Komedia Oshibok (1978) is a TV production, filmed in two parts, which in many of its formalistic aspects resembles a feature film. The production was filmed in several locations in the Soviet Republic of G…

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Citation: Paterson, Ronan. "Komodiya Oshibok (1978) -- film adaptation of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 February 2016 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19422, accessed 27 April 2024.]

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