King Lear
19702h 12mNo ratings yet
- Drama
Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 15, 1970
- Original language
- Russian
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Lenfilm
- Cast
- Grigoriy Gay,Oleg Dal,Leonhard Merzin,Roman Gromadskiy,Konstantin Tyagunov,Valentina Shendrikova,Juozas Budraitis,Karlis Sebris,Zinoviy Gerdt,Elza Radziņaand 13 more
- Director
- Grigori Kozintsev
- Cinematography
- Jonas Gricius
- Music
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0064553