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King Lear
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
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Cast
Jüri JärvetKing Lear
Galina VolchekRegan
Elza RadziņaGoneril
Valentina ShendrikovaCordelia
Oleg DalFool
Donatas BanionisAlbany
Regimantas AdomaitisEdmund
Aleksandr VokachCornwall
Olexy PetrenkoOswald
Juozas BudraitisKing of France
Karlis SebrisGloster
Vladimir YemelyanovKent
Leonhard MerzinEdgar
Roman GromadskiyGloster's Servant
Details
- Director
- Grigori Kozintsev
- Writers
- Grigori Kozintsev, William Shakespeare, Boris Pasternak
- Release date
- December 15, 1970
- Runtime
- 2h 12m
- Original language
- Russian
- Studios
- Lenfilm
