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.
N/A
HD
Drama
1971
139 min
Prime VideoStreaming Channels
Movie Info:
- Full Name : King Lear
- Duration : 139 min
- Languages : Russian
- Writers : Grigori Kozintsev, Boris Pasternak (Russian translation, 1949), William Shakespeare (play)
- Directors : Grigori Kozintsev, Iosif Shapiro min
- Imdb : 8.3 (926 votes)
- Tomatoes : 4.2 (193 votes)
- Actors : Jèri Jèrvet, Elza Radzina, Galina Volchek, Valentina Shendrikova
Movie Storyline
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.