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King Lear

Name: King Lear
Genre: Drama
Released: 1970-12-15
Duration: 132 min
Cast: Jüri Järvet, Galina Volchek, Elza Radziņa, Valentina Shendrikova, Oleg Dal

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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.

Director: Grigori Kozintsev
Writers: William Shakespeare, Boris Pasternak, Grigori Kozintsev
Language: Russian
Country: Soviet Union
Release date: 15 December 1970

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