The Merchant of Venice is a 2004 movie based on Shakespeare's play of the same name. It is the first full-length sound film version in English of Shakespeare's play; most other versions are videotaped productions made for television. There had been a British early sound nine-minute short subject production of the trial scene in 1927, with Lewis Casson as Shylock and Sybil...
The Merchant of Venice
Performances
Directed by
Michael Radford
Michael Radford (born February 24, 1946 in New Delhi, India to a British father and Austrian-Jewish mother) is an English film director and screenwriter.
Radford was educated at Bedford School before attending Worcester College, Oxford. After teaching for a few years, he went to the National Film...