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8.5/10   373 votes
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Directors:
Writers:
Grigori Kozintsev (writer)
Boris Pasternak (Russian translation, 1949)
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Release Date:
6 August 1975 (USA) more
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Plot:
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him... more | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
Lights, Camera, Shakespeare
 (From New York Post. 13 July 2009, 1:29 AM, PDT)

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Assured and deeply moving treatment of Lear more (11 total)

Cast

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Jüri Järvet ... King Lear (as Yuri Yarvet)
Elza Radzina ... Goneril (as E. Radzina)
Galina Volchek ... Regan (as G. Volchek)
Valentina Shendrikova ... Cordelia (as V. Shendrikova)
Oleg Dal ... Fool (as O. Dal)
Karlis Sebris ... Gloster (as K. Sebris)
Leonhard Merzin ... Edgar (as L. Merzin)
Regimantas Adomaitis ... Edmund (as R. Adomaytis)
Vladimir Yemelyanov ... Kent (as V. Yemelyanov)
Aleksandr Vokach ... Cornwall (as A. Vokach)
Donatas Banionis ... Albany (as D. Banionis)
Aleksei Petrenko ... Oswald (as A. Petrenko)
Juozas Budraitis ... King of France (as I. Budraytis)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
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)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Король Лир (Soviet Union: Russian title)
King Lear (USA)
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Runtime:
139 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Referenced in Filip Traum (1989) (TV) more

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13 out of 15 people found the following review useful.
Assured and deeply moving treatment of Lear, 5 April 2001
10/10
Author: Joseph Couch from Sydney, Australia

Even, relaxed performances. Tasteful, non-intrusive direction. No gimmicks. And finally a clear, even obvious! result.

This might seem like damning with faint praise, except that Kozintsev has done what Brook didn't, what Olivier's BBC production didn't, and what every stage production I have ever seen resolutely and spectacularly failed to do. That is to create order and clarity and meaning within arguably the greatest and arguably the most difficult play ever written. It seems easy to do in Kosintsev's version, which is one of his great triumphs. see it

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