King Lear (1999)
Brian Blessed stars and directs.
- Date of release
- 1999-01-01
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 3h 10m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Brian Blessed, Tony Rotherham
Casting
- Brian Blessed — King Lear
- Hildegard Neil — The Fool
- Jason Riddington — Edmund
- Phillipa Peak — Cordelia
Interesting facts
King Lear is a 1999 adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name. The film stars Brian Blessed in the title role. Apart from Peter Brook's King Lear in 1971, it is the only feature-length film adaptation to preserve Shakespeare's verse. Yvonne Griggs, in Shakespeare's King Lear: A close study of the relationship between text and film (2009), characterised it as "a very stilted costume drama".
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