King Lear
Film - 1982
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King Lear it's a movie with Michael Hordern, Brenda Blethyn, John Shrapnel, Norman Rodway, Michael Kitchen Full cast. Directed by Jonathan Miller. Original title King Lear, runtime 185 minutes. Genre Drama.
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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.