King Lear

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Jüri Järvet

King Lear

Age : 76 | Popularity : 4%

Galina Volchek

Regan

Age : 86 | Popularity : 7%

Elza Radzina

Goneril

Age : 88 | Popularity : 5%

Valentina Shendrikova

Cordelia

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Oleg Dal

Fool

Age : 39 | Popularity : 7%

Donatas Banionis

Albany

Age : 90 | Popularity : 10%

Regimantas Adomaitis

Edmund

Age : 87 | Popularity : 5%

Aleksandr Vokach

Cornwall

Age : 63 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Theatre Play	William Shakespeare Boris Pasternak
	Writer	Grigori Kozintsev
Directing	Co-Director	Iosif Shapiro
	Director	Grigori Kozintsev
	Assistant Director	Arkadiy Tigay Valentina Kuznetsova V. Kravchenko I. Mochalova I. Vishnevskaya
Sound	Original Music Composer	Dmitri Shostakovich
	Sound	Eduard Vanunts
Camera	Director of Photography	Jonas Gricius
	Camera Operator	Valentin Komarov V. Amosenko Aleksandr Sysoyev
Art	Production Design	Evgeny Eney
	Set Designer	Vsevolod Ulitko
	Set Decoration	Ye. Yakuba Aleksandr Ney I. Zaytseva
Editing	Editor	Yevgeniya Makhankova
Costume & Make-Up	Makeup Artist	Vasili Goryunov Lyudmila Eliseeva
	Costume Design	Simon Virsaladze
Department	Role	Name

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