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

Resources

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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 Georgia, at that time a popular region with Russian film makers, and the Georgian influence extends to the casting of a

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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://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19422, accessed 25 November 2024.]