| Release Date: | Mar 1974 |
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| Genre: | Drama |
| Cast: | Jüri Järvet (King Lear), Elza Radzina (Goneril), Galina Volchek (Regan), Valentina Shendrikova (Cordelia), Oleg Dal (Fool), Karlis Sebris (Gloster (as K. Sebris)), Leonhard Merzin (Edgar (as L. Merzin)), Regimantas Adomaitis (Edmund), Vladimir Yemelyanov (Kent), Aleksandr Vokach (Cornwall), Donatas Banionis (Albany), Aleksei Petrenko (Oswald), Juozas Budraitis (King of France (as I. Budraytis)), Roman Gromadsky ((as R. Gromadsky)), Nikolai Kuzmin ((as N. Kuzmin)), Ants Lauter ((as A. Lauter)), Ignat Leirer ((as I. Leyrer)), Konstantin Tyagunov ((as K. Tyagunov)), Emmanuil Vitorgan (Messenger (uncredited)) |
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.
