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Directed by | Pierre Billon |
Written by | Pierre Billon Louis Ducreux Cesare Lodovici Giuseppe Mangione Corrado Sofia Federico Zardi |
Based on | The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare |
Produced by | Giorgio Venturini Eugène Tucherer |
Starring | Michel Simon Andrée Debar Massimo Serato |
Cinematography | Arturo Gallea |
Edited by | Loris Bellero |
Music by | Giovanni Fusco |
Production companies | Élysée Films Venturini Film |
Distributed by | DisCina Venturini Film |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
Countries | France Italy |
Language | French |
The Merchant of Venice (French: Le marchand de Venise, Italian: Il mercante di Venezia) is a 1953 French-Italian drama film directed by Pierre Billon and starring Michel Simon, Andrée Debar and Massimo Serato. It is loosely based on William Shakespeare's Elizabethan play of the same name.[1][2]
The film's sets were designed by the art director Giancarlo Bartolini Salimbeni.