Release Date

04 Feb, 1971

Runtime

02:17: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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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Actors

Paul Scofield

Irene Worth

Susan Engel

Anne-Lise Gabold

Alan Webb

Ian Hogg

Robert Langdon Lloyd

Tom Fleming

Jack MacGowran

Cyril Cusack

Patrick Magee

Barry Stanton

Crew

Peter Brook

Peter Brook

William Shakespeare

Michael Birkett

Sam Lomberg

Sam Lomberg

Mogens Skot-Hansen

Henning Kristiansen

Albert Jurgenson

Kasper Schyberg

Georges Wakhévitch

Adele Angard

Ruth Hamler

Ken Lintott