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King Lear

6.4 90 mins Comedy   Drama   1988
The Cannon Group   Golan-Globus Productions  
Director(s): Jean-Luc Godard

A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.

Casts of King Lear

Peter Sellars

as William Shakespeare Junior the Fifth

Burgess Meredith

as Don Learo

Julie Delpy

as Virginia

Leos Carax

as Edgar

Molly Ringwald

as Cordelia

Jean-Luc Godard

as Professor Pluggy

Woody Allen

as Mr. Alien (uncredited)

Freddy Buache

as Professor Quentin Kozintsev (uncredited)

Menahem Golan

as Self (voice) (uncredited)

Suzanne Lanza

as (uncredited)

Kate Mailer

as Self (uncredited)

Norman Mailer

as Self (uncredited)

Michèle Pétin

as Journalist (uncredited)

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