
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
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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
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