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King Lear (1988)

Jealous love leads to destruction.

6.5(36)1h 31mJanuary 22, 1988

Jean-Luc Godard

Director

Norman Mailer, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Sellars

Writers

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Diary

Overview

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

William Shakespeare Junior the Fifth

Burgess Meredith

Don Learo

Julie Delpy

Virginia

Leos Carax

Edgar

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Molly Ringwald

Cordelia

Jean-Luc Godard

Professor Pluggy

Woody Allen

Mr. Alien (uncredited)

Freddy Buache

Professor Quentin Kozintsev (uncredited)

Menahem Golan

Self (voice) (uncredited)

Suzanne Lanza

(uncredited)

Norman Mailer

Self (uncredited)

Michèle Pétin

Journalist (uncredited)

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Status: Released
Original language: English
Release date: January 22, 1988
Budget: $1,000,000
Revenue: $61,821
Production: The Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions
Country: United States of America

Keywords

post-apocalyptic futureplaywrightchernobyl, ukrainepostmodernism

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