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King Lear (1971)
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4 February 1971 (Denmark)
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The Shakespeare tragedy that gave us the expression "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have...
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Cyril Cusack | ... | Albany |
| Susan Engel | ... | Regan |
| Tom Fleming | ... | Kent |
| Anne-Lise Gabold | ... | Cordelia |
| Ian Hogg | ... | Edmund |
| Søren Elung Jensen | ... | Duke of Burgundy |
| Robert Langdon Lloyd | ... | Edgar (as Robert Lloyd) |
| Jack MacGowran | ... | Fool |
| Patrick Magee | ... | Cornwall |
 | Paul Scofield | ... | King Lear |
| Barry Stanton | ... | Oswald |
| Alan Webb | ... | Gloucester |
| Irene Worth | ... | Goneril |
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137 min
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Brook based this production on ideas expressed by Polish theater critic Jan Kott in the book "Shakespeare, Our Contemporary".
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Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Unearthly (#4.20)" (1991)
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Easily one of my favorite movies of all time, Peter Brook's King Lear demands that you think, and will disturb you because you are alive and will one day (statistically speaking) be an old, foolish, feeble, mistake-laden human. Comment to the angles and lighting and all the things that seem to consistently disturb viewers: place yourself in the mind of a slowly ebbing ego, driven to rage over confusion and denied shame--an old man of four score and not a day more, in love with his youngest daughter, living his final days having denied and banished her... of course you are never going to see someone clearly, steadily, squarely, or in the same screen area. This masterfully bleak representation of one of Shakespeare's more difficult plays is unjustly in moratorium. I have shown it to many of my classes and will continue until the tape is worn with holes. Brook's treatment of Edgar is so haunting, so perfect, if you leave this feeling empty and lost, bravo! He who scoffs at their first viewing of this film is simply not watching the film, but is watching their expectations dashed on the wall.