Korolʹ Lir [videorecording] / Lenfilʹm ; Pervoe Tvorcheskoe Ob"edinenie ; st͡senariĭ i postanovka Grigorii͡a Kozint͡seva ; Rezhisser, Iosif Shapiro = A Lenfilm Production ; First Creative Association ; written and directed by Grigori Kozintsev ; co-director, Iosif Shapiro.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Widescreen presentation.
Publisher:
Facets Video,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.)
Based on a translation of Shakespeare's King Lear by Boris Pasternak. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1970. Yuri Yarvet ; Elsa Radzin ; Galina Vochek ; Valentina Shendrikova.
Contents:
Special features: Peter Sellars on Grigori Kozintsev (65 min.) ; Facets Cine-Notes booklet.
Summary:
A dramatization of William Shakespeare's play in which tragedy occurs when an old king prematurely divides his kingdom among his daughters in the vain hope that they will care for him in his old age.
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