Movielogr
King Lear (1970)
Directed by Grigori Kozintsev
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.
Length 132 minutes
Actors
Jüri Järvet | Galina Volchek | Elza Radzina | Valentina Shendrikova | Oleg Dal | Donatas Banionis | Regimantas Adomaitis | Aleksandr Vokach | Aleksey Petrenko | Juozas Budraitis | Karlis Sebris | Vladimir Yemelyanov | Leonhard Merzin | Roman Gromadskiy | Zinoviy Gerdt | Grigori Gaj | Aleksandr Demyanenko | Emmanuil Vitorgan | Nikolay Kuzmin | Ants Lauter | Ignat Leyrer | Konstantin Tyagunov