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.
Genre: Drama
Actor: Jüri Järvet, Galina Volchek, Elza Radzina, Valentina Shendrikova, Oleg Dal, Donatas Banionis, Regimantas Adomaitis, Aleksandr Vokach, Aleksey Petrenko, Juozas Budraitis
Director: V. Kravchenko, I. Mochalova, I. Vishnevskaya, Grigori Kozintsev, Arkadiy Tigay, Iosif Shapiro, Valentina Kuznetsova, Grigoriy Kozintsev, Grigori Kozintsev, Iosif Shapiro(co-director)
Country: Soviet Union, Russia
Produced By: Lenfilm
Runtime: 132
Release: 1970
Rating: 6.7 out of 10
Language: Pусский, Russian, French,
Views: 119
Content Rating:PG
Quality: DVD
Also known as: Korol Lir, King Lear
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