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King Lear
Jealous love leads to destruction.
A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
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Cast
Peter SellarsWilliam Shakespeare Junior the Fifth
Burgess MeredithDon Learo
Julie DelpyVirginia
Leos CaraxEdgar
Molly RingwaldCordelia
Jean-Luc GodardProfessor Pluggy
Woody AllenMr. Alien (uncredited)
Freddy BuacheProfessor Quentin Kozintsev (uncredited)
Menahem GolanSelf (voice) (uncredited)
Suzanne LanzaGoblin (uncredited)- Kate MailerSelf (uncredited)
Norman MailerSelf (uncredited)
Michèle PétinJournalist (uncredited)
Ruth Maleczech(voice) (uncredited)
Details
- Director
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Writers
- William Shakespeare, Jean-Luc Godard
- Release date
- January 22, 1988
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Budget
- $1M
- Box office
- $61.8K worldwide
- Original language
- English
- Studios
- The Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions
