My Dictator
Sung-geun is an untalented actor who makes a living playing minor roles. He happens to land on the role as Kim Il-sung, the former leader of North Korea, for the rehearsal of the South-North Korea Summit. Sung-geun becomes passionately immersed in his role, motivated by his son who looks up to him. However, the summit is not realized, and Sung-geun ends up lost in the delusion that he really is Kim Il-sung.
It's Never Too Late
To Laura Hammond's large family, she is simply the mother who makes all their lives run more smoothly. But although they don’t know it, she is a very successful novelist and when her screenplay comes to the attention of a Hollywood producer, Laura is suddenly plunged into the big time.
King Lear
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
King Lear
King Lear is a proud man who solicits praise from his three daughters in return for inheritance of the kingdom. Daughters Goneril and Regan profess their affection vehemently. Cordelia, who does not respect the process her father has chosen, does not humor him. Lear's perceived rejection from Cordelia leads to her banishment, thus splitting the kingdom between the other two. This hasty decision becomes his fatal error.
National Theatre Live: King Lear
Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with bitter ends.
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.
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Hae-jun Lee
Director
Chae Soo-bin
as
Jung Hae-kyun
as
King Lear
Patrick Barr
as
Charles Hammond
Alan Bates
as
King Lear
Delphi Lawrence
as
Mrs. Madge Dixon
Sam Kydd
as
(uncredited)
Romola Garai
as
Cordelia
Philip Winchester
as
Edmund
Ian McKellen
as
King Lear
Zoe Boyle
as
Lady in Waiting
Patrick Magee
as
Cornwall
Ian Hogg
as
Edmund
Paul Scofield
as
King Lear
Lloyd Hutchinson
as
Fool
Danny Webb
as
Gloucester
Sinéad Cusack
as
Kent
Antoni Cimolino
Director
Colm Feore
as
King Lear
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