King Lear - Paul Scofield - Peter Brook - 1971 - Official Trailer - 4K
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.
Directed by Peter Brook
CAST
Paul Scofield as King Lear
Irene Worth as Goneril
Susan Engel as Regan
Anne-Lise Gabold as Cordelia
Jack MacGowran as Fool
Alan Webb as Gloucester
Robert Langdon Lloyd as Edgar (as Robert Lloyd)
Ian Hogg as Edmund
Tom Fleming as Kent
Cyril Cusack as Albany
Søren Elung Jensen as Duke of Burgundy
Patrick Magee as Cornwall
Barry Stanton as Oswald
Peter Brook’s version of King Lear was prompted by an essay by Polish critic Jan Kott titled “King Lear or Endgame”, where Katt 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 Denmark.
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Read Shakespeare's Complete Works online for free: https://shakespearenetwork.net/works/
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Screen Adaptation - Co-Production : MISANTHROPOS – Official Website - https://www.misanthropos.net
Adapted by Maximianno Cobra, from Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens", the film exposes the timeless challenge of social hypocrisy, disillusion and annihilation against the poetics of friendship, love, and beauty.
IMDb page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6946736/
Directed by Peter Brook
CAST
Paul Scofield as King Lear
Irene Worth as Goneril
Susan Engel as Regan
Anne-Lise Gabold as Cordelia
Jack MacGowran as Fool
Alan Webb as Gloucester
Robert Langdon Lloyd as Edgar (as Robert Lloyd)
Ian Hogg as Edmund
Tom Fleming as Kent
Cyril Cusack as Albany
Søren Elung Jensen as Duke of Burgundy
Patrick Magee as Cornwall
Barry Stanton as Oswald
Peter Brook’s version of King Lear was prompted by an essay by Polish critic Jan Kott titled “King Lear or Endgame”, where Katt 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 Denmark.
Copyright - All rights reserved to their respective owners.
Read Shakespeare's Complete Works online for free: https://shakespearenetwork.net/works/
_______________________________
Screen Adaptation - Co-Production : MISANTHROPOS – Official Website - https://www.misanthropos.net
Adapted by Maximianno Cobra, from Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens", the film exposes the timeless challenge of social hypocrisy, disillusion and annihilation against the poetics of friendship, love, and beauty.
IMDb page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6946736/
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