King Lear
movie
Released December 15, 1970
Genres:
Overview
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.
Cast
Crew
Grigori Kozintsev
as
Director
- no image
Simon Virsaladze
as
Costume Design
- no image
Yevgeniya Makhankova
as
Editor
- no image
Iosif Shapiro
as
Co-Director
Dmitri Shostakovich
as
Original Music Composer
Jonas Gricius
as
Director of Photography
William Shakespeare
as
Theatre Play
Boris Pasternak
as
Theatre Play
Grigori Kozintsev
as
Writer
Evgeny Eney
as
Production Design
- no image
Aleksandr Ney
as
Set Decoration
- no image
Ye. Yakuba
as
Set Decoration