King Lear
Korol Lir
1970, Film, 140 min, Drama, Russian, 0, MoviePedia score 68
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.
Directed by Grigoriy Kozintsev, Iosif Shapiro
Cast
- Jüri Järvet as King Lear
- Elza Radzina as Goneril
- Galina Volchek as Regan
- Valentina Shendrikova as Cordelia
- Oleg Dal as Fool
- Karlis Sebris as Gloster
- Leonhard Merzin as Edgar
- Regimantas Adomaitis as Edmund
- Vladimir Emelyanov as Kent
- Aleksandr Vokach as Cornwall
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