King Lear

6.5

132m

1970

Drama

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.

Starring

Jüri Järvet, Galina Volchek, Elza Radziņa, Valentina Shendrikova, Oleg Dal, Donatas Banionis, Regimantas Adomaitis, Aleksandr Vokach, Aleksey Petrenko, Juozas Budraitis

Directed By

Grigori Kozintsev