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title: 'The Merchant of Venice (1923)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Peter Paul Felner'
released: '1923-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 123
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-merchant-of-venice-1923'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0014175/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Merchant of Venice (1923)

1923 · 123 min · Drama · Germany

Original title: Der Kaufmann von Venedig

## Synopsis

The Merchant of Venice  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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Peter Paul Felner](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-paul-felner)
- **Producer:** [Peter Paul Felner](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-paul-felner)
- **Editor:** [Peter Paul Felner](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-paul-felner)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Michael Krasznay-Krausz](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-krasznay-krausz)
- **Director of Photography:** [Axel Graatkjær](https://cinepixo.com/people/axel-graatkj-r), [Rudolph Maté](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolph-mate)

## Cast

- [Carl Ebert](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-ebert)
- [Harry Liedtke](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-liedtke)
- [Frida Richard](https://cinepixo.com/people/frida-richard)
- [Hans Brausewetter](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-brausewetter)
- [Werner Krauss](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-krauss)
- [Ferdinand von Alten](https://cinepixo.com/people/ferdinand-von-alten)
- [Henny Porten](https://cinepixo.com/people/henny-porten)
- [Albert Steinrück](https://cinepixo.com/people/albert-steinruck)
- [Lia Eibenschütz](https://cinepixo.com/people/lia-eibenschutz)
- [Jakob Tiedtke](https://cinepixo.com/people/jakob-tiedtke)
- [Max Schreck](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-schreck)

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