KING LEAR aka KOROL LIR

Year: 1971
UK: BFI Distribution / Contemporary Films
Cast: Juri Järvet, Regimantas Adomaitis, Donatas Banionis, Juozas Budraitis, Oleg Dal, Roman Gromadsky, Aleksei Petrenko, Elze Radzinya, Karl Sebris, Valentina Shendrikova, Aleksandr Vokach, Galina Volchek, V Yemelyanov
Director: Grigori Kozintsev
Co-director: Iosif Shapiro
Country: USSR
Language: Russian (English subtitles)
UK: 139 mins
UK Certificate: U
UK Release Date: 3 March 2006 (Limited Release - London, NFT)
UK Distributor

Synopsis

Leading Estonian actor Juri Järvet plays King Lear in this Shakespearean adaptation, KOROL LIR aka KING LEAR from Ukrainian film director Grigori Kozintsev. Filmed in Estonia, KING LEAR is being released on a new print. In Russian with English subtitles.