King Lear - Ian McKellen - TV - 2009 - 4K

King Lear is a 2008 television film based on the William Shakespeare play of the same name, directed by Trevor Nunn. It was broadcast on More4 in the UK on Christmas Day, and shown on PBS' Great Performances in the United States in March 2009. The production was filmed mainly at Pinewood Studios in England.

CAST
Ian McKellen – King Lear
Romola Garai – Cordelia
William Gaunt – Earl of Gloucester
Jonathan Hyde – Earl of Kent
Philip Winchester – Edmund
Sylvester McCoy – The Fool
Frances Barber – Goneril
Monica Dolan – Regan
David Weston – A Gentleman
Guy Williams – Duke of Cornwall
Seymour Matthews – Curan
John Heffernan – Oswald
Ben Meyjes – Edgar
Julian Harries – Duke of Albany
Naomi Capron – Maid
Kieran Bew – Soldier
Peter Hinton- Duke of Burgundy
Ben Addis – King of France

Director – Trevor Nunn

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Screen Adaptation - Co-Production : MISANTHROPOS – Official Website - https://www.misanthropos.net
Adapted by Maximianno Cobra, from Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens", the film exposes the timeless challenge of social hypocrisy, disillusion and annihilation against the poetics of friendship, love, and beauty.

IMDb page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6946736/

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