King Lear

  • Comedy
  • Drama
1/22/1988
90
PG

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:
Jean-Luc Godard
Peter Sellars
Norman Mailer
Richard Debuisne
Revenue:
$61,821
Budget:
$1,000,000
    • post-apocalyptic future
    • playwright
    • chernobyl
    • postmodernism

    Videos

    Cast

    • Peter Sellars
      William Shakespeare Junior the Fifth
    • Burgess Meredith
      Don Learo
    • Julie Delpy
      Virginia
    • Leos Carax
      Edgar
    • 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)
    • Kate Mailer
      Self (uncredited)
    • Norman Mailer
      Self (uncredited)
    • Michèle Pétin
      Journalist (uncredited)

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