King Lear (1970)
Korol Lir
140 min
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.
- Release date
- December 15, 1970
- Country of origin
- Russia
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Trailer
Cast
- Jüri Järvet as King Lear
- Galina Volchek as Regan
- Elza Radzina as Goneril
- Valentina Shendrikova as Cordelia
- Oleg Dal as Fool
- Donatas Banionis as Albany
- Regimantas Adomaitis as Edmund
- Aleksandr Vokach as Cornwall
- Aleksey Petrenko as Oswald
- Juozas Budraitis as King of France
- Karlis Sebris as Gloster
- Vladimir Emelyanov as Kent
- Leonhard Merzin as Edgar
- Zinoviy Gerdt as King Lear (voice)
- Grigoriy Gay as Gloster (voice)
- Aleksandr Demyanenko as Albany (voice)
- Emmanuil Vitorgan as Edgar (voice) / Messenger (uncredited)
- Nikolay Kuzmin
Crew
- Grigoriy Kozintsev · Director
- Grigoriy Kozintsev · Writer
- Geoffrey of Monmouth · Writer
- Boris Pasternak · Writer
- William Shakespeare · Writer
- Dmitri Shostakovich · Composer
- Jonas Gricius · Cinematographer
- Yevgeniya Makhankova · Editor
- Yevgeni Yenej · Production designer
- Inna Zaytseva · Production designer