King Lear (1970)
King Lear is a proud man who solicits praise from his three daughters in return for inheritance of the kingdom. Daughters Goneril and Regan profess their affection vehemently. Cordelia, who does not respect the process her father has chosen, does not humor him. Lear's perceived rejection from Cordelia leads to her banishment, thus splitting the kingdom between the other two. This hasty decision becomes his fatal error.
- 公開日
- 1970-07-10
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (21)
- 上映時間（分）
- 2時間17分
- ジャンル
- ドラマ
- 監督
- Peter Brook
キャスト
- ポール・スコフィールド — King Lear
- Irene Worth — Goneril
- Susan Engel — Regan
- Anne-Lise Gabold — Cordelia
- Alan Webb — Gloucester
- Ian Hogg — Edmund
- Robert Langdon Lloyd — Edgar
- Tom Fleming — Kent
- Jack MacGowran — Fool
- Cyril Cusack — Albany
- パトリック・マギー — Cornwall
- Barry Stanton — Oswald
豆知識
- 原作：リア王
King Lear is a 1971 British film adaptation of the Shakespeare play directed by Peter Brook and starring Paul Scofield. Filmed in stark black-and-white, the film was inspired by the absurdist theatre of playwrights such as Samuel Beckett and upon release was noted for its bleak tone and wintry atmosphere.
Production
Peter Brook’s version of King Lear was prompted by an essay by Polish critic Jan Kott titled “King Lear or Endgame”, where Kott writes that Shakespeare's play is a tragedy of the grotesque, “an ironic, clownish morality play, […] a mockery of all eschatologies: of the heaven promised on earth, and the heaven promised after death.” The film was shot in 16mm black-and-white and mostly made in the mid-winter dune country of the Jutland Peninsula of…
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