Grigori KOZINTSEV
Григорий КОЗИНЦЕВ
Grigori KOZINTSEV
USSR, 1970, 130mn 
Black and white, fiction
King Lear
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Король Лир

 

 Le Roi Lear

 Korol Lear

 
Directed by : Grigori KOZINTSEV (Григорий КОЗИНЦЕВ)
Writing credits : Grigori KOZINTSEV (Григорий КОЗИНЦЕВ)
 
Cast
Regimantas ADOMAITIS (Регимантас АДОМАЙТИС) ...Edmund
Donatas BANIONIS (Донатас БАНИОНИС) ...Albany
Yuni BUDRAITIS (Юний БУДРАЙТИС) ...Le roi de France
Oleg DAL (Олег ДАЛЬ) ...Le fou
Vladimir EMELIANOV (Владимир ЕМЕЛЬЯНОВ) ...Kent
Leonhard MERZIN (Леонхард МЕРЗИН) ...Edgar
Aleksey PETRENKO (Алексей ПЕТРЕНКО) ...Oswald
Elsa RADZINYA (Эльза РАДЗИНЯ) ...Goneril
Karlis SEBRIS (Карлис СЕБРИС) ...Gloucester
Valentina SHENDRIKOVA (Валентина ШЕНДРИКОВА) ...Cordélia
Emmanuil VITORGAN (Эммануил ВИТОРГАН)
Aleksandr VOKACH (Александр ВОКАЧ) ...Cornwell
Galina VOLSHEK (Галина ВОЛЧЕК) ...Régane
Jüri YARVET (Юри ЯРВЕТ) ...Lear
 
Cinematography : Ionas GRITSIUS (Ионас ГРИЦЮС)
Music : Dmitry SHOSTAKOVICH (Дмитрий ШОСТАКОВИЧ)
Sound : Eduard BANUNTS (Эдуард ВАНУНЦ)
Editing : E. MAKHANKOVA (Е. МАХАНЬКОВА)
Production : Lenfilm
Spectators : 17,9 millions of spectators
Release date in Russia : 08/02/1971
 
Site : IMDb

Awards :
Jüri JÄRVET / Youri YARVET a été consacré meilleur acteur de l’année 1972 par les lecteurs du journal « Sovetsky ecran »
Grand prix et prix de l’interprétation masculine (Jüri JÄRVET /Youri YARVET) au Festival de Téhéran en 1972
Hugo d’Argent au Festival de Chicago en 1972
Médaille d’Or de la Ville de Milan en 1973

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Bach Films
Editor : Ruscico

Plot synopsis
This is a screen adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy. King Lear had three daughters: Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. One day he banished and repudiated his youngest and most loved daughter. But the evil elder sisters betrayed their father and blinded him. Having lost not only his kingdom, but even a plain shelter, the old Lear, accompanied by his loyal jester, had finally seen the light of truth and was reunited with Cordelia who was not afraid to share her father’s fate…
Source : www.ruscico.com
 

Commentaries and bibliography
King Lear, the Space of Tragedy : The Diary of a Film Director, Grigori KOZINTSEV, University of California Press, 1977
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2016
- Pessac International History Film Festival, Pessac (France), 2011
- Temps de paroles : de l'Empire soviétique à la Russie, Valencia (France), 2010
- Russian films in the cinema Arlequin, Paris (France), 2006
- Europalia Russia 2005, Brussels (Belgium), 2005