El rey Lear

El rey Lear (1970)

Король Лир

El veterano rey Lear de Bretaña decide que ha llegado el momento de ceder su reino a sus tres hijas, Gonerilda, Regania y Cordelia, y poder así vivir tranquilo sus últimos días. Para ello el monarca somete a sus hijas a prueba, y declara que se llevará la mayor parte del reino la que más le ame... Siete años después de filmar la que está considerada como la mejor adaptación de Hamlet al cine, el realizador Grigori Kozintsev (“Don Quijote”, “La nueva Babilonia”) volvió a tomar una obra de William Shakespeare como fuente del que sería su último largometraje, "El Rey Lear". Bajo la influencia de Orson Welles, Kozintsev quiso que también esta tragedia fuese rodada en un blanco y negro que acentúa los conflictos internos y externos de los personajes. Al igual que en Hamlet, Kozintsev recurrió a la espléndida traducción de Boris Pasternak. Además, volvió a confiar la banda sonora a su viejo amigo Dimitri Shostakovich, quien compuso una de sus magistrales y más inspiradas partituras

Fecha de estreno
1970-12-15
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (27)
Duración
2 h 12 min
Géneros
Drama
Director
Григорий Козинцев

Reparto

Curiosidades

  • Basada en: El rey Lear

King Lear is a 1971 Soviet drama film directed by Grigori Kozintsev, based on William Shakespeare's play King Lear. The film uses Boris Pasternak's translation of the play, while the Fool's songs are translated by Samuil Marshak. It was Kozintsev's last completed film.

Production

Grigori Kozintsev considered many actors for the role of Lear. The casting director first suggested Jüri Järvet for the small part of a tramp, but Kozintsev offered him the title role. He later explained: "The internal world of this actor seemed attractive to me. This is an actor of deep thought. He is able to play the role with philosophical depth.

The role of Goneril is portrayed by Latvian actress Elza Radziņa, who also appeared in Kozintsev's Hamlet as Gertrude. Radzina was one of the co-founders of the Sovremennik Theatre. The role of Regan went to Galina Volchek, whose casting was first met with some skepticism but went on to be a success. The relatively unknown Valentina Shendrikova of the Mayakovsky Theatre plays Cordelia.

The film was shot primarily in Narva and Ivangorod. Its extensive set of houses and streets was built inside the Ivangorod Fortress, which was under reconstruction at the time of filming. The film's scenic designers were Evgeny Eney and Vsevolod Ulitko; its costumes were created by the chief designer of the Bolshoi Theatre Simon Virsaladze. Dmitri Shostakovich composed the film's score.

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