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King Lear
Jealous love leads to destruction.
A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
Cast
- Peter Sellars as William Shakespeare Junior the Fifth
- Burgess Meredith as Don Learo
- Julie Delpy as Virginia
- Leos Carax as Edgar
- Molly Ringwald as Cordelia
- Jean-Luc Godard as Professor Pluggy
- Woody Allen as Mr. Alien (uncredited)
- Freddy Buache as Professor Quentin Kozintsev (uncredited)
- Menahem Golan as Self (voice) (uncredited)
- Suzanne Lanza as Goblin (uncredited)
- Kate Mailer as Self (uncredited)
- Norman Mailer as Self (uncredited)
Details
- Director
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Released
- January 22, 1988
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Studio
- The Cannon Group and Golan-Globus Productions
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 6.5 / 10 from 36 votes
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