King Lear (1970)
2h 12m
Running Time
December 15, 1970Release Date
King Lear (1970)
2h 12m
Running Time
December 15, 1970Release Date
Plot.
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 & Crew.
Jüri Järvet
King Lear
Elza Radzina
Goneril
Galina Volchek
Regan
Valentina Shendrikova
Cordelia
Oleg Dal
Fool
Grigori Kozintsev
Director
Donatas Banionis
Albany
Iosif Shapiro
Director
Regimantas Adomaitis
Edmund
Aleksandr Vokach
Cornwall
Boris Pasternak
Writer
Aleksey Petrenko
Oswald
William Shakespeare
Writer
Juozas Budraitis
King of France
Dmitri Shostakovich
Composer
Karlis Sebris
Gloster
Vladimir Yemelyanov
Kent
Leonhard Merzin
Edgar
Roman Gromadskiy
Gloster's Servant
Zinoviy Gerdt
King Lear (voice)
Grigori Gaj
Gloster (voice)
Aleksandr Demyanenko
Albany (voice)
Emmanuil Vitorgan
Edgar (voice) / Messenger (uncredited)
Arkadiy Tigay
Assistant Director
Jonas Gricius
Director of Photography
Valentina Kuznetsova
Assistant Director
Evgeny Eney
Production Design
Eduard Vanunts
Sound
Yevgeniya Makhankova
Editor
Vasili Goryunov
Makeup Artist
Vsevolod Ulitko
Set Designer
Simon Virsaladze
Costume Design
Ye. Yakuba
Set Decoration
Aleksandr Ney
Set Decoration
Valentin Komarov
Camera Operator
Lyudmila Eliseeva
Makeup Artist
I. Zaytseva
Set Decoration
V. Kravchenko
Assistant Director
I. Mochalova
Assistant Director
I. Vishnevskaya
Assistant Director
V. Amosenko
Camera Operator
Aleksandr Sysoyev
Camera Operator
Ignat Leyrer
Ants Lauter
Nikolay Kuzmin
Konstantin Tyagunov
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
King Lear (Russian: Король Лир, romanized: Korol Lir) is a 1971 Soviet drama film directed by Grigori Kozintsev, based on William Shakespeare's play King Lear. The film uses Boris Pasternak's translation of the play, while the Fool's songs are translated by Samuil Marshak. It was Kozintsev's last completed film.
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