by Grigori Kozintsev, Iosif Shapiro · Bach Films · DVD · EAN 3760054380509
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«Le Roi Lear II» is the film by Grigori Kozintsev and Iosif Shapiro (1974), starring Jüri Järvet, Elza Radzina and Galina Volchek, on DVD.
Soviet adaptation of Shakespeare's play that tells the story of King Lear, an elderly monarch who decides to test his daughters' affection and divide his kingdom, unleashing a spiral of ingratitude, betrayal and madness. The film recreates the medieval setting of the tragedy with a sober register.
Bach Films edition in the Les chefs-d'œuvre du cinéma russe collection: black and white, audio in Russian with French subtitles. With translation by Boris Pasternak (1949).
For viewers interested in Soviet cinema and literary adaptations of Shakespeare.
