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Grigori Kozintsev's King Lear [videorecording] / Lenfilm ; screen version and direction, Grigori Kozintsev

Contributor(s): Publication details: Chicago, Illinios : Facets Video, [2007]Description: 1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.)ISBN:
  • 1565805984
Other title:
  • King Lear
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822.33 GRI
Production credits:
  • Cinematography, Yonus Gritsius ; music, Dmitry Shostakovich
Cast: Yuri Yarvet (King Lear), Elsa Radzin, Galina Vochek, Valentina Shendrikova (Cordelia), Oleg Dal.Summary: 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.
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Media Resources Taylor's Library-TC 822.33 GRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available CALxx,03000,01,GR 1000139977

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

Cinematography, Yonus Gritsius ; music, Dmitry Shostakovich

Yuri Yarvet (King Lear), Elsa Radzin, Galina Vochek, Valentina Shendrikova (Cordelia), Oleg Dal.

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.

DVD format

In Russian with optional English subtitles