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.
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Jüri Järvet as King Lear
Galina Volchek as Regan
Elza Radziņa as Goneril
Valentina Shendrikova as Cordelia
Oleg Dal as Fool
Donatas Banionis as Albany
Regimantas Adomaitis as Edmund
Aleksandr Vokach as Cornwall
Aleksey Petrenko as Oswald
Juozas Budraitis as King of France
Karlis Sebris as Gloster
Vladimir Yemelyanov as Kent
Leonhard Merzin as Edgar
Roman Gromadskiy as Gloster's Servant
Zinoviy Gerdt as King Lear (voice)
Grigori Gaj as Gloster (voice)
Aleksandr Demyanenko as Albany (voice)
Emmanuil Vitorgan as Edgar (voice) / Messenger (uncredited)
Nikolay Kuzmin as
Ants Lauter as
Ignat Leyrer as
Konstantin Tyagunov as
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