King Lear

Jan 22, 1988

1h 30m

★ 6.4

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

The Cannon Group

Golan-Globus Productions

King Lear Trailers

Cast

William Shakespeare Junior the Fifth

Peter Sellars

Don Learo

Burgess Meredith

Virginia

Julie Delpy

Edgar

Leos Carax

Cordelia

Molly Ringwald

Professor Pluggy

Jean-Luc Godard

Mr. Alien (uncredited)

Woody Allen

Professor Quentin Kozintsev (uncredited)

Freddy Buache

Self (voice) (uncredited)

Menahem Golan

(uncredited)

Suzanne Lanza

Self (uncredited)

Kate Mailer

Self (uncredited)

Norman Mailer

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