King Lear (1970)
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
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Jüri Järvet as King Lear |
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Galina Volchek as Regan |
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Elza Radziņa as Goneril |
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Valentina Shendrikova as Cordelia |
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Oleg Dal as Fool |
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Donatas Banionis as Albany |
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Regimantas Adomaitis as Edmund |
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Aleksandr Vokach as Cornwall |
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Aleksey Petrenko as Oswald |
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Juozas Budraitis as King of France |
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Karlis Sebris as Gloster |
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Vladimir Yemelyanov as Kent |
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Leonhard Merzin as Edgar |
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Roman Gromadskiy as Gloster's Servant |
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Zinoviy Gerdt as King Lear (voice) |
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Grigoriy Gay as Gloster (voice) |
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Aleksandr Demyanenko as Albany (voice) |
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Emmanuil Vitorgan as Edgar (voice) / Messenger (uncredited) |
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Nikolay Kuzmin as |
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Ants Lauter as |
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Ignat Leyrer as |
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Konstantin Tyagunov as |
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V. Bobrov as |
| Directing | Grigori Kozintsev | Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Simon Virsaladze | Costume Design |
| Editing | Yevgeniya Makhankova | Editor |
| Directing | Iosif Shapiro | Co-Director |
| Sound | Dmitri Shostakovich | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Jonas Gricius | Director of Photography |
| Writing | William Shakespeare | Theatre Play |
| Writing | Boris Pasternak | Theatre Play |
| Writing | Grigori Kozintsev | Writer |
| Art | Evgeny Eney | Production Design |
| Art | Aleksandr Ney | Set Decoration |
| Art | Ye. Yakuba | Set Decoration |
| Art | I. Zaytseva | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Lyudmila Eliseeva | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Vasili Goryunov | Makeup Artist |
| Directing | V. Kravchenko | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Valentina Kuznetsova | Assistant Director |
| Directing | I. Mochalova | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Arkadiy Tigay | Assistant Director |
| Directing | I. Vishnevskaya | Assistant Director |
| Art | Vsevolod Ulitko | Set Designer |
| Sound | Eduard Vanunts | Sound |
| Camera | Vladimir Amosenko | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Valentin Komarov | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Aleksandr Sysoyev | Camera Operator |
| Directing | Boris Frumin | Assistant Director Trainee |
