King Lear (1971 USSR film)

King Lear
Film poster
Directed by	Grigori Kozintsev
Written by	Grigori Kozintsev William Shakespeare (play) Boris Pasternak (Russian translation, 1919)
Starring	Jüri Järvet Elza Radzina Galina Volchek
Music by	Dmitri Shostakovich
Cinematography	Jonas Gricius
Edited by	Ye. Makhankova
Production company	Lenfilm
Release dates	8 February 1971 (Soviet Union)
Running time	130 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

King Lear (Russian: Король Лир, translit. Korol Lir) is a 1971 Soviet drama film directed by Grigori Kozintsev, based on William Shakespeare's play King Lear. The Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich composed the score.

Cast

Scene from King Lear

• Jüri Järvet - King Lear (voice: Zinovi Gerdt)
• Elza Radzina - Goneril
• Galina Volchek - Regan
• Valentina Shendrikova - Cordelia
• Oleg Dahl - Fool
• Karlis Sebris - Gloucester
• Leonhard Merzin - Edgar (voice: Emmanuil Vitorgan)
• Regimantas Adomaitis - Edmund
• Vladimir Yemelyanov - Kent
• Aleksandr Vokach - Cornwall
• Donatas Banionis - Albany (voice: Aleksandr Demyanenko)
• Aleksei Petrenko - Oswald
• Juozas Budraitis - King of France

See also

• List of historical drama films

External links

• King Lear at the Internet Movie Database

Dmitri Shostakovich
Operas and operetta	Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District Moscow, Cheryomushki The Nose Orango (unfinished) The Big Lightning (unfinished) The Twelve Chairs (unfinished) The Gamblers (unfinished)
Ballets	The Bolt The Golden Age The Limpid Stream
Symphonies	No. 1 in F minor No. 2 in B major (To October) No. 3 in E♭ major (The First of May) No. 4 in C minor No. 5 in D minor No. 6 in B minor No. 7 in C major (Leningrad) No. 8 in C minor No. 9 in E♭ major No. 10 in E minor No. 11 in G minor (The Year 1905) No. 12 in D minor (The Year 1917) No. 13 in B♭ minor (Babi-Yar) No. 14 No. 15 in A major
Concertos	Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor Violin Concerto No. 2 in C♯ minor Cello Concerto No. 1 in E♭ major Cello Concerto No. 2 in G major
Orchestral works	Suite from The Nose Suite from The Golden Age Suite from The Bolt Suite from The Limpid Stream Suite from Encounter at the Elbe Suite from The Gadfly Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1 Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 Suite for Variety Orchestra Tahiti Trot Festive Overture in A major for Orchestra Novorossiisk Chimes, the Flame of Eternal Glory for Orchestra
Film music	The New Babylon Alone Golden Mountains Counterplan The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda The Youth of Maxim Girl Friends The Return of Maxim The Vyborg Side Friends The Great Citizen Zoya Simple People The Young Guard Pirogov Michurin Meeting on the Elbe The Fall of Berlin Belinsky The Unforgettable Year 1919 The Gadfly Five Days, Five Nights Sofiya Perovskaya Hamlet King Lear
Vocal music	Anti-Formalist Rayok The Execution of Stepan Razin From Jewish Folk Poetry Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok Song of the Forests Suite on Finnish Themes Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti The Sun Shines over Our Motherland
Chamber music	String quartets No. 1 in C major No. 2 in A major No. 3 in F major No. 4 in D major No. 5 in B♭ major No. 6 in G major No. 7 in F♯ minor No. 8 in C minor No. 9 in E♭ major No. 10 in A♭ major No. 11 in F minor No. 12 in D♭ major No. 13 in B♭ minor No. 14 in F♯ major No. 15 in E♭ minor Other Cello Sonata in D minor Piano Quintet in G minor Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Quartet Movement in E♭ major (c. 1960s) Viola Sonata Violin Sonata
Piano music	Twenty-Four Piano Preludes and Fugues Children's Notebook (6) Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor Three Fantastic Dances
Named for Shostakovich	2669 Shostakovich London Shostakovich Orchestra Shostakovich Peninsula
Related articles	List of compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich DSCH motif Leningrad première of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 Literaturoper Maxim Shostakovich (son) Muddle Instead of Music Neoclassicism Post-romanticism Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox Testimony The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin Wihuri Sibelius Prize
Portal:Classical music

William Shakespeare's King Lear
Characters	King Lear Cordelia Goneril Regan Edmund
Sources	Holinshed's Chronicles (1577) The Mirror for Magistrates (1555) King Leir (1594) Historia Regum Britanniae (1136) Cordelia of Britain Leir of Britain Llŷr "Water and Salt"
Adaptations	Plays The History of King Lear (1681) The Yiddish King Lear (1892) Safed Khoon (1907) Lear (1971) Novels La Terre (1887) A Thousand Acres (1991) Fool (2009) Opera Re Lear (Libretto only) (1896) Lear (1978) Kuningas Lear (2000) Films Gunasundari Katha (1949) King Lear (1971 USSR) King Lear (1971 UK) Ran (1985) King Lear (1987) A Thousand Acres (1997) Gypsy Lore (1997) King Lear (1999) My Kingdom (2001) King of Texas (2002) Baghban (2003) Second Generation (2003) Life Goes On (2009) Television King Lear (1953) BBC Television Shakespeare (1982) King Lear (1983) King Lear (2008) Empire (2015) Story within a story The Dresser (1980 play) The Dresser (1983 film) The Dresser (2015 film) Other Tiriel (1789, poem) The Prince of the Pagodas (1957, ballet) The Tragedy of King Lear (screenplay)