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Not who you're looking for? Others named The Merchant of Venice: play by Shakespeare set in the Republic of Venice · opera by André Tchaikowsky · 2004 film by Michael Radford · 1969 unfinished film directed by Orson Welles
The Merchant of Venice (German: Der Kaufmann von Venedig) is a 1923 German silent drama film directed by Peter Paul Felner and starring Werner Krauss, Henny Porten and Harry Liedtke. The film is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice. It was released in the United States in 1926 as The Jew of Mestri. The film was made on location in Venice, with scenes and characters added which were not in the original play. This is the surviving copy, being two reels shorter than the German version. The characters in the German retained Shakespeare's nomenclature, but in the American they were given new names sourced from the Italian work Il Pecorone, a 14th-century short story collection attributed to Giovanni Fiorentino, from which Shakespeare is believed to have drawn his idea. The film purports to be a return to the original, as an excuse for its differences from the play.
“Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them: and when you have them, they are not worth the search.”
“I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth.”
“Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves.”
“I’ll take my leave of the Jew in the twinkling of an eye.”
“I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!”
“This night methinks is but the daylight sick.”
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