King Lear

Overview

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

Top cast

Jüri Järvet

King Lear

Galina Volchek

Regan

Elza Radziņa

Goneril

Valentina Shendrikova

Cordelia

Oleg Dal

Fool

Donatas Banionis

Albany

Regimantas Adomaitis

Edmund

Aleksandr Vokach

Cornwall

Aleksey Petrenko

Oswald

Juozas Budraitis

King of France

Karlis Sebris

Gloster

Vladimir Yemelyanov

Kent

Leonhard Merzin

Edgar

Roman Gromadskiy

Gloster's Servant

Zinoviy Gerdt

King Lear (voice)

Grigoriy Gay

Gloster (voice)

Aleksandr Demyanenko

Albany (voice)

Emmanuil Vitorgan

Edgar (voice) / Messenger (uncredited)

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Nikolay Kuzmin

Ants Lauter

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