Grigori Kozintsev's King Lear  [videorecording] / 
 King Lear 
Lenfilm ; screen version and direction, Grigori Kozintsev 
 - Chicago, Illinios :  Facets Video,  [2007] 
 - 1 videodisc (132 min.) :  sd., b&w ;  4 3/4 in. +  1 booklet (15 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.) 
<br/><br/> Based on a translation of Shakespeare's King Lear by Boris Pasternak  DVD release of the 1970 Russian motion picture  Special features include: Peter Sellars on King Lear (onscreen introduction); Facets Cine-Notes booklet  Booklet in DVD case 
<br/><br/>Cinematography, Yonus Gritsius ; music, Dmitry Shostakovich  Cinematography, Yonus Gritsius ; music, Dmitry Shostakovich 
<br/><br/>Yuri Yarvet (King Lear), Elsa Radzin, Galina Vochek, Valentina Shendrikova (Cordelia), Oleg Dal. 
<br/><br/> A dramatization of William Shakespeare's play in which tragedy occurs when an old king prematurely divides his kingdom between his daughters in the vain hope that they will care for him in his old age. 
<br/><br/><br/>DVD format 
<br/><br/><br/>In Russian with optional English subtitles 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1565805984 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Lear, King (Legendary character)--Drama<br/>Britons--Kings and rulers--Drama<br/>Fathers and daughters--Drama
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>822.33  / GRI