King Lear (1988)
A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
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Cast
Peter Sellars
as William Shakespeare Junior the Fifth
Burgess Meredith
as Don Learo
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Julie Delpy
as Virginia
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Leos Carax
as Edgar
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Molly Ringwald
as Cordelia
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Jean-Luc Godard
as Professor Pluggy
Jean-Luc Godard (December 3, 1930 – September 13, 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement an...
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
