Cinetrā
Cinetrā
Cinetrā
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.
Thessaloniki International Film Festival 1971
Cast: Jüri Järvet, Galina Volchek, Elza Radziņa, Valentina Shendrikova, Oleg Dal, Donatas Banionis, Regimantas Adomaitis, Aleksandr Vokach, Aleksey Petrenko, Juozas Budraitis, Karlis Sebris, Vladimir Yemelyanov, Leonhard Merzin, Roman Gromadskiy, Zinoviy Gerdt, Grigoriy Gay, Aleksandr Demyanenko, Emmanuil Vitorgan, Nikolay Kuzmin, Ants Lauter
Writer: Grigori Kozintsev (Writer)
Cinematographer: Jonas Gricius
Production Designer: Evgeny Eney
Editor: Yevgeniya Makhankova
Sound Designer: Eduard Vanunts
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Costume Designer: Simon Virsaladze
Direction team: Iosif Shapiro (Co-Director), Valentina Kuznetsova (Assistant Director), V. Kravchenko (Assistant Director), Arkadiy Tigay (Assistant Director), I. Vishnevskaya (Assistant Director)
Production: Lenfilm
