Grigori Kozintsev, Iosif Shapiro	...	(Director)
Grigori Kozintsev, Boris Pasternak	...	(Writer)
Jüri Järvet	...	King Lear (as Yuri Yarvet)
Elza Radzina	...	Goneril (as E. Radzina)
Galina Volchek	...	Regan (as G. Volchek)
Valentina Shendrikova	...	Cordelia (as V. Shendrikova)
Oleg Dal	...	Fool (as O. Dal)
Karlis Sebris	...	Gloster (as K. Sebris)
Leonhard Merzin	...	Edgar (as L. Merzin)
Regimantas Adomaitis	...	Edmund (as R. Adomaytis)
Vladimir Yemelyanov	...	Kent (as V. Yemelyanov)
Aleksandr Vokach	...	Cornwall (as A. Vokach)
Donatas Banionis	...	Albany (as D. Banionis)
Aleksey Petrenko	...	Oswald (as A. Petrenko)
Juozas Budraitis	...	King of France (as I. Budraytis)
Roman Gromadskiy	...	(as R. Gromadsky)
Nikolay Kuzmin	...	(as N. Kuzmin)

Summary: King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.