King Lear

Name: King Lear
Director: Peter Brook
Released: 1970-07-10T00:00:00+00:00
Rating: 6.5

1970 · TMDB 6.5

King Lear is a proud man who solicits praise from his three daughters in return for inheritance of the kingdom. Daughters Goneril and Regan profess their affection vehemently. Cordelia, who does not respect the process her father has chosen, does not humor him. Lear's perceived rejection from Cordelia leads to her banishment, thus splitting the kingdom between the other two. This hasty decision becomes his fatal error.

Why it matters

Grigori Kozintsev's Soviet adaptation strips the play to its bones, with Yuri Yarvet's frail, haunted Lear wandering a landscape of stone, bare trees and indifferent sky.

From The Verse Will Outlive the Stage

Follow this film into “The Verse Will Outlive the Stage”

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

Director · Peter Brook Producer · Sam Lomberg Producer · Michael Birkett Producer · Mogens Skot-Hansen Writer · Peter Brook Cinematography · Henning Kristiansen Editor · Albert Jurgenson Editor · Kasper Schyberg

Runtime: 137 min
Released: 1970-07-10
Studio: Royal Shakespeare Company
Country: Denmark
Language: English
TMDB score: 6.5

Drama

KinoChain appearances

Chains through this film

Where this title sits in a journey — and where cinema takes you next.

Browse all chains

Follow your taste to American Beauty →

The Verse Will Outlive the Stage

Position 5 of 8

Grigori Kozintsev's Soviet adaptation strips the play to its bones, with Yuri Yarvet's frail, haunted Lear wandering a landscape of stone, bare trees and indifferent sky.