Othello (Shakespeare: the Animated Tales)
1994: Nikolai Serebryakov

One of the set of animated tales; all in all, they are curiously successful, though they are highly compressed. The animation on all the pieces are different in style, so there is a certain interest to that. The plot itself is reduced to about twenty-five minutes, and hence a good deal of the play is necessarily missing. Not a substitute for reading or seeing the play entire, it nevertheless offers some interesting visual perspectives on the story.

Buy the series Shakespeare, the Animated Tales at Amazon. This series contains brief (about 25 minutes) animated versions of: The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, andTwelfth Night.