Learning on ScreenKorol Lir
- Alternative title
- Korol Lir
- Synopsis
- Feature film based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and scored by Dmitri Shostakovich. Jüri Järvet is Lear. Kozintsev’s Lear ‘goes for the wide anle, depicting how the insanity of one man...brings the entire nation to the brink. The opening panorama- a painfully slow tracking shot of peasants trudging towards Lear’s castle- is one of the great set pieces of Shakespearean cinema’ (The Guardian, 2019).
With English subtitles. - Language
- Russian
- Country
- Former USSR
- Medium
- Film
- Technical information
- Black-and-white / Sound
- Year of release
- 1971
- Duration
- 141 mins
Credits
- Director
- Grigori Kozintsev
- Cinematographer
- Jonas Gritsus
- Writer
- Boris Pasternak; William Shakespeare
- Music
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Cast
Additional Details
- Production type
- Fiction Films
- Historical period
- Dark Ages
- Plays
- King Lear
- Subjects
- Drama; Shakespeare
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- Reviews
- Kozintsev, Grigori The Space of Tragedy: The Diary of a Film Director. (London: Heinemann, 1978). Translated Mary Mackintosh; foreword Peter Brook.
[Day-to-day meditations on Shakespeare and making of KING LEAR].
`King Lear: Peter Brook and Grigori Kozintsev’ in Jorgens, Jack J. Shakespeare on Film (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1991) pp235-51
Production Company
- Name
Lenfilm
Distributor
- Name
Retail outlets
Distributor (Hire)
- Name
BFI Film Bookings Unit
- bookings.films@bfi.org.uk
- Web
- http://www.bfi.org.uk/about-bfi/help-faq/film-bookings External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7957 8938 / 8935
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London
W1T 1LN
Distributor (Sale)
- Name
Mr Bongo Films
- info@mrbongo.com
- Web
- http://www.mrbongo.com External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 01273 600546
- Fax
- 01273 600578
- Address
- 2nd Floor
24 Old Steine
Brighton
BN1 1EL
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