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''King Lear'' is a 1987 cinematic adaptation of the Shakespeare play of the same title, directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The script is primarily by Peter Sellars and Tom Luddy. The film's plot, centred on a late descendant of Shakespeare attempting to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilisation, is centred on a resort in Nyon, Vaud, Switzerland. ==Cast== * Peter Sellars as William Shakespeare Jr. the Fifth, a descendant of the renowned bard charged with restoring his ancestor's work. * Burgess Meredith as Don Learo, a prominent gangster visiting the Swiss resort patronised by Shakespeare Jr. the Fifth with his daughter. * Molly Ringwald as Cordelia, the daughter of gangster Don Learo, with whom she converses in lines from Shakespeare. * Jean-Luc Godard as Professor Pluggy, an eccentric professor obsessed with Xeroxing his own hand. * Freddy Buache as Professor Quentin * Leos Carax as Edgar * Julie Delpy as Virginia The film also features uncredited cameos by Woody Allen as a film editor named Mr. Alien, Kate and Norman Mailer as themselves, Michèle Pétin and Suzanne Lanza. At the beginning of his acting career, director Quentin Tarantino falsely claimed to have played a part in the film in his resume, assuming that casting agents in Hollywood were unfamiliar with the film.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Quentin Tarantino Archives )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A talk with Quentin Tarantino )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「King Lear (1987 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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