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6.5A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
Released: 1988-01-2291 minDir: Jean-Luc GodardComedy, DramaBudget: $1.0MBox office: $61,821
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
Themes
- post-apocalyptic future
- playwright
- chernobyl, ukraine
- postmodernism
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- King Lear
- Director
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Screenwriter
- Norman Mailer
- Producer
- Menahem Golan
- Narrative location
- Switzerland
- Duration
- 90
- FilmAffinity ID
- 811799
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- publication date
- 1987-01-01
- film editor
- Jean-Luc Godard
- title
- King Lear
- distributed by
- The Cannon Group
- review score
- 4.8/10
- characters
- Grigori Kozintsev
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King Lear est un film français réalisé par Jean-Luc Godard, sorti en 1987. Le film est une adaptation de la tragédie en cinq actes Le Roi Lear de William Shakespeare, le 26 décembre 1606 au Palais de Whitehall.
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