King Lear (1970)
Movie
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.
Directed By : Grigori Kozintsev
Genres : Drama
Status : Released
Released : Dec 15, 1970
Length : 132 minutes
Cast
- Jüri Järvet
- Galina Volchek
- Elza Radziņa
- Valentina Shendrikova
- Oleg Dal
- Donatas Banionis
- Regimantas Adomaitis
- Aleksandr Vokach
- Aleksey Petrenko
- Juozas Budraitis
- Karlis Sebris
- Vladimir Yemelyanov
- Leonhard Merzin
- Roman Gromadskiy
- Zinoviy Gerdt
- Grigoriy Gay
- Aleksandr Demyanenko
- Emmanuil Vitorgan
- Nikolay Kuzmin
- Ants Lauter
- Ignat Leyrer
- Konstantin Tyagunov
- V. Bobrov
Crew
- Director : Grigori Kozintsev
- Editor : Yevgeniya Makhankova
- Costume Design : Simon Virsaladze
- Co-Director : Iosif Shapiro
- Original Music Composer : Dmitri Shostakovich
- Director of Photography : Jonas Gricius
- Writer : Grigori Kozintsev
- Theatre Play : William Shakespeare
- Theatre Play : Boris Pasternak
- Makeup Artist : Vasili Goryunov
- Set Decoration : I. Zaytseva
- Assistant Director : Valentina Kuznetsova
- Assistant Director : V. Kravchenko
- Production Design : Evgeny Eney
- Set Decoration : Ye. Yakuba
- Makeup Artist : Lyudmila Eliseeva
- Set Decoration : Aleksandr Ney
- Camera Operator : Aleksandr Sysoyev
- Assistant Director : Arkadiy Tigay
- Set Designer : Vsevolod Ulitko
- Assistant Director : I. Mochalova
- Camera Operator : Vladimir Amosenko
- Assistant Director : I. Vishnevskaya
- Camera Operator : Valentin Komarov
- Sound : Eduard Vanunts
- Assistant Director Trainee : Boris Frumin