King Lear / 20186.56 voti

L'ottantenne re Lear suddivide il suo regno tra le figlie Goneril, Regan e Cordelia, basandosi sull'affetto che queste nutrono nei suoi confronti. Cordelia, però, si rifiuta di adularlo e per tale ragione viene bandita. Dopo aver acquisito il potere, Goneril e Regan cacciano il padre dalle loro case. Nel frattempo, Gloucester, il primo ministro di Lear, viene tradito dal figlio Edmund ed Edgar, l'altro figlio, è costretto a nascondersi. Mentre Lear diventa pazzo, Gloucester è accecato: sia il regno sia le famiglie piombano nel caos e nella guerra. Lear e Cordelia si ritrovano e per un breve periodo regna l'amore prima che arrivi la tragedia finale.

King Lear / 19875.04 voti

A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.

Re Lear / 19718.07 voti

Peter Brook porta sullo schermo la sua celebrata messinscena del Lear ambientando la storia in un clima cupo e invernale da antica saga nordica. Paul Scofield ripete la sua performance nella parte del vecchio re shakespeariano che divide il regno fra le sue figlie e se ne pente. Cacciato da loro, impazzisce e muore.

King Lear / 2008

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.

King Lear / 1998

Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

King Lear / 1983

An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.

King Lear / 2015

Fathom Events and BY Experience bring the Stratford Festival’s critically acclaimed performance of King Lear to cinemas for a memorable one-night event. An aging monarch resolves to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, with consequences he little expects. His reason shattered in the storm of violent emotion that ensues, with his very life hanging in the balance, Lear loses everything that has defined him as a king – and thereby discovers the essence of his own humanity.

King Lear / 1974

James Earl Jones delivers a riveting performance as paranoid patriarch King Lear, an aging monarch who insists that his three daughters prove their love for him, only to learn he's exalted the two who seek to destroy him. This live performance recording of Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production deftly envisions the bard's haunting tragedy with a fine supporting cast, including Raul Julia, Paul Sorvino and Rene Auberjonois.

King Lear / 2021

The once powerful King Lear chooses to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, and so begins one of Shakespeare’s most moving tragedies. At the crucial point of relinquishing his realm, Lear demands to know which of his daughters loves him the most. His ambitious older daughters answer with false praise and lavish flattery, however his youngest daughter, who does truly love him, answers with honesty. Wildly unsatisfied with her response, Lear’s rage sets in motion catastrophic consequences. Ultimately stripped of his privilege and its trappings, Lear must reckon with his own humanity.

King Lear / 1999

Brian Blessed stars and directs.

King Lear / 1909

An impressively tactile, if slightly over-ambitious, adaptation of King Lear from Vitagraph Studios.

King Lear / 2016

Don Warrington stars as the tragic monarch in this acclaimed version of the Shakespeare play recorded at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.

King Lear / 2023

Caught in a carousel of memory, the head of a dysfunctional royal family grapples with power-hungry children and the threat of losing the empire he created. Real and imagined worlds coalesce, creating a political and personal horror that threatens to swallow the mind of the monarch.

King Lear

King Lear is a video production of William Shakespeare's 1606 play of the same name, directed by Michael Elliott. It was broadcast in 1983 in the UK and in 1984 in the US. Elliott set his Lear in an environment resembling Stonehenge, although the production was entirely shot in a studio. The somewhat out-of-focus effect that one sees at certain...

King Lear

King Lear / 2012

Captured live at the Almeida Theatre in November 2012.

King Lear / 1982

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.

King Lear / 1953

In this abridged television production, Lear vows revenge against his conniving daughters after they try to take swift control of his power.

King Lear / 2003

King Lear / 1974

When England's aging King Lear renounces his throne to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, treachery, madness and murder soon follow. After banishing Cordelia, his most loyal daughter, Lear is betrayed and cast out by her elder sisters Regan and Goneril. Meanwhile, evil brews at the Gloucester castle as Edgar falls victim to his brother's deception. As battle lines are drawn and backs are stabbed, Lear rages against a fearsome storm. Can a man undo his wrongs? Will Cordelia be saved? Or will the wheels of fate crush all in its way?