King Lear
Король Лир
Release: 1970-12-15
·Runtime: 132m
·★ 6.5
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.
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Lenfilm
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Elza Radziņa
as Goneril
Oleg Dal
as Fool
Donatas Banionis
as Albany
Regimantas Adomaitis
as Edmund
Aleksandr Demyanenko
as Albany (voice)
Ants Lauter
Galina Volchek
as Regan
Karlis Sebris
as Gloster
Leonhard Merzin
as Edgar
Zinoviy Gerdt
as King Lear (voice)
Nikolay Kuzmin
Ignat Leyrer
Konstantin Tyagunov
V. Bobrov
Jüri Järvet
as King Lear
Valentina Shendrikova
as Cordelia
Aleksey Petrenko
as Oswald
Vladimir Yemelyanov
as Kent
Grigori Gaj
as Gloster (voice)
Emmanuil Vitorgan
as Edgar (voice) / Messenger (uncredited)
Aleksandr Vokach
as Cornwall
Juozas Budraitis
as King of France
Roman Gromadskiy
as Gloster's Servant
Crew
Vasili Goryunov
Makeup Artist
Grigori Kozintsev
Director, Writer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Original Music Composer
Jonas Gricius
Director of Photography
Boris Pasternak
Theatre Play
William Shakespeare
Theatre Play
Arkadiy Tigay
Assistant Director
Boris Frumin
Assistant Director Trainee
Evgeny Eney
Production Design