King Lear
Jealous love leads to destruction.
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Release Date
1/22/1988Runtime
90 minsOverview
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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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$1,000,000Revenue
$61,821Homepage
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A hallucinatory meditation on Shakespeare's King Lear staged amid nuclear wasteland, where a playwright attempts to resurrect high art in a civilization in ruins. Watching it feels like stumbling through a fever dream that's both mournful and darkly funny about the futility of restoring meaning after catastrophe.
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Heads up
Burgess Meredith
Don Learo
Peter Sellars
William Shakespeare Junior the Fifth
Julie Delpy
Virginia
Leos Carax
Edgar
Molly Ringwald
Cordelia
Jean-Luc Godard
Professor Pluggy
Norman Mailer
The Great Writer
Woody Allen
Mr. Alien
Freddy Buache
Professor Quentin (uncredited)
Kate Mailer
Herself (uncredited)
Suzanne Lanza
(uncredited)
Michèle Pétin
Journalist (uncredited)
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