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.
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- Jüri JärvetKing Lear
- Galina VolchekRegan
- Elza RadziņaGoneril
- Valentina ShendrikovaCordelia
- Oleg DalFool
- Donatas BanionisAlbany
- Regimantas AdomaitisEdmund
- Aleksandr VokachCornwall
- Aleksey PetrenkoOswald
- Juozas BudraitisKing of France
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- Grigori KozintsevDirector
- Grigori KozintsevWriter
- Jonas GriciusDirector of Photography
- Dmitri ShostakovichOriginal Music Composer
- Yevgeniya MakhankovaEditor
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