Dopo aver spartito l'impero fra i suoi tre figli, il vecchio feudatario Hidetora Ichimonji assiste allo scatenarsi di una guerra fratricida che porterà a conseguenze imprevedibili per tutta la prestigiosa casata.
L'ottantenne re Lear suddivide il suo regno tra le figlie Goneril, Regan e Cordelia, basandosi sull'affetto che queste nutrono nei suoi confronti. Cordelia, però, si rifiuta di adularlo e per tale ragione viene bandita. Dopo aver acquisito il potere, Goneril e Regan cacciano il padre dalle loro case. Nel frattempo, Gloucester, il primo ministro di Lear, viene tradito dal figlio Edmund ed Edgar, l'altro figlio, è costretto a nascondersi. Mentre Lear diventa pazzo, Gloucester è accecato: sia il regno sia le famiglie piombano nel caos e nella guerra. Lear e Cordelia si ritrovano e per un breve periodo regna l'amore prima che arrivi la tragedia finale.
In this abridged television production, Lear vows revenge against his conniving daughters after they try to take swift control of his power.
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
A powerful dynasty, headed by a charismatic, manipulative father, falls when he decides to hand over his criminal empire to his three corrupt and power-hungry daughters. Kath runs a brothel down by the docks, Tracy owns a soccer team and Jo, a former junkie -- and prostitute -- rejects her inheritance, pitting sisters Kath and Tracy against each other.
A modern take on William Shakespeare's King Lear.
Fathom Events and BY Experience bring the Stratford Festival’s critically acclaimed performance of King Lear to cinemas for a memorable one-night event. An aging monarch resolves to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, with consequences he little expects. His reason shattered in the storm of violent emotion that ensues, with his very life hanging in the balance, Lear loses everything that has defined him as a king – and thereby discovers the essence of his own humanity.
In this re-imagining of Shakespear's King Lear, Patrick Stewart stars as John Lear, a Texas cattle baron, who, after dividing his wealth among his three daughters, is rejected by them.
When England's aging King Lear renounces his throne to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, treachery, madness and murder soon follow. After banishing Cordelia, his most loyal daughter, Lear is betrayed and cast out by her elder sisters Regan and Goneril. Meanwhile, evil brews at the Gloucester castle as Edgar falls victim to his brother's deception. As battle lines are drawn and backs are stabbed, Lear rages against a fearsome storm. Can a man undo his wrongs? Will Cordelia be saved? Or will the wheels of fate crush all in its way?
A tragedy by William Shakespeare about King Lear who intends to abdicate, and therefore wants to carve the kingdom up between his three daughters. Recorded at Orion Theatre in Stockholm
Based on the play by William Shakespeare.
An irascible Shakespeare scholar with early onset dementia communicates with her caretaker daughter using the only language available to her, the text of King Lear, as the two struggle with aging, love, and their own balance of power.
Due to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, tens of thousands of Ukrainians, fleeing the war, found refuge in Uzhhorod in western Ukraine. The local director decides to attract non-professional actors -displaced people - in bringing his dream into life - to stage the King Lear play. The theatrical performance helps them find themselves and their purpose in a new world where there is war, and the director finds an answer to the eternal question of what love is and why this world should not perish.