Film · Drama, Comedy
King Lear (1988)
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.
- Director
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Writers
- William Shakespeare, Jean-Luc Godard
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- January 22, 1988
Cast
Peter SellarsWilliam Shakespeare Junior the Fifth
Burgess MeredithDon Learo
Julie DelpyVirginia
Leos CaraxEdgar
Molly RingwaldCordelia
Jean-Luc GodardProfessor Pluggy
Woody AllenMr. Alien (uncredited)
Freddy BuacheProfessor Quentin Kozintsev (uncredited)
Menahem GolanSelf (voice) (uncredited)
Suzanne LanzaGoblin (uncredited)- Kate MailerSelf (uncredited)
Norman MailerSelf (uncredited)
Michèle PétinJournalist (uncredited)
Ruth Maleczech(voice) (uncredited)
