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King Lear poster

King Lear(1988)

PGJanuary 22, 19881h 31m

65%User score 65 percent

User Score

36 votes

Jealous love leads to destruction.

Overview

A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Writers: Norman Mailer, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Sellars

Top Billed Cast

Peter Sellars
William Shakespeare Junior the Fifth
Burgess Meredith
Don Learo
Julie Delpy
Virginia
Leos Carax
Edgar

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Molly Ringwald

Cordelia

Jean-Luc Godard

Professor Pluggy

Woody Allen

Mr. Alien (uncredited)

Freddy Buache

Professor Quentin Kozintsev (uncredited)

Menahem Golan

Self (voice) (uncredited)

Suzanne Lanza

(uncredited)

Norman Mailer

Self (uncredited)

Michèle Pétin

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Kate Mailer

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Facts

Status: Released
Original title: King Lear
Original language: English
Budget: $1,000,000
Revenue: $61,821
Production: The Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions

Keywords

post-apocalyptic future
playwright
chernobyl, ukraine
postmodernism