King Lear
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.
Top Billed Cast
Jüri Järvet
King Lear
Galina Volchek
Regan
Elza Radziņa
Goneril
Valentina Shendrikova
Cordelia
Oleg Dal
Fool
Featured Crew
Grigori Kozintsev
Director
Yevgeniya Makhankova
Editor
Simon Virsaladze
Costume Design
Iosif Shapiro
Co-Director
Dmitri Shostakovich
Original Music Composer
Jonas Gricius
Director of Photography
Grigori Kozintsev
Writer
William Shakespeare
Theatre Play
Boris Pasternak
Theatre Play
Vasili Goryunov
Makeup Artist
I. Zaytseva
Set Decoration
Valentina Kuznetsova
Assistant Director
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