“King Lear” on the Big Screen

Duration: 170 minutes (includes one 15 minute intermission)
Yury Butusov's brilliant, award-winning staging of King Lear tells us a story in which the collapse of a family, the collapse of a country, and the collapse of an individual are all connected to each other. In Shakespeare's classic work, Lear imagined himself to be God's equal - and so he divided his kingdom between his daughters just to see what would happen.
The role of Lear is played by Konstantin Raikin, one of the best Russian actors.