This is a screen adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy.

King Lear had three daughters: Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. One day he banished and repudiated his youngest and most loved daughter. But the evil elder sisters betrayed their father and blinded him. Having lost not only his kingdom, but even a plain shelter, the old Lear, accompanied by his loyal jester, had finally seen the light of truth and was reunited with Cordelia who was not afraid to share her father’s fate…



Awards:
• Grand Prize, Special Prize for Best Actor (Yuri Yarvet) at the Teheran IFF, 1972
• Silver Hugo at the Chicago IFF, 1972
• Gold Medal of Milan Municipality at the Milan IFF, 1973


Special Freatures:
• Video subjects: “D. Shostakovich’s music», “The World of King Lear”
• Interview with G. Volchek
• Biography of W. Shakespeare
• Filmographies
• Photo album
• Soon on DVD

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Ekranizatsiya odnoimennoj tragedii Vilyama SHekspira.

U korolya Lira bylo tri docheri: Gonerilya, Regana i Kordeliya. Odnazhdy on prognal mladshuyu, lyubimuyu, i otreksya ot nee. No starshie docheri-zlodejki predali ottsa i oslepili ego. Lishivshis ne tolko svoego korolevstva, no i prosto kryshi nad golovoj, staryj Lir, soprovozhdaemyj lish svoim vernym shutom, v kontse kontsov prozrel serdtsem i vnov obrel doch Kordeliyu, ne poboyavshuyusya razdelit sudbu ottsa…


Nagrady:
• Glavnyj priz i Spetsialnaya premiya za luchshuyu muzhskuyu rol (akter YUrij YArvet) na MKF v Tegerane, 1972
• "Serebryanyj Hyugo" na MKF v CHikago, 1972
• Zolotaya medal munitsi-paliteta Milana na MKF v Milane, 1973


Dopolnitelnyj material (bonus-trek):
• Videosyuzhety: «Mir korolya Lira», «Muzyka D. SHostakovicha»
• Intervyu s aktrisoj G. Volchek
• Biografiya Vilyama SHekspira
• Filmografii
• Fotoalbom
• Smotrite na DVD

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