King Lear (2008)

Actors: Ian McKellen (actor), William Shakespeare (writer), Frances Barber (actress), Sylvester McCoy (actor), Jonathan Hyde (actor), Romola Garai (actress), Trevor Nunn (director), Monica Dolan (actress), David Weston (actor), William Gaunt (actor), Philip Winchester (actor), Kieran Bew (actor), Peter Hinton (actor), Seymour Matthews (actor), Guy Williams (actor),

König Lear (1992)

Actors: Manfred Zapatka (actor), Heinz Bennent (actor), Rolf Boysen (actor), William Shakespeare (writer), Thomas Holtzmann (actor), Franziska Walser (actress), Richard Beek (actor), Michael Tregor (actor), Claus Eberth (actor), Michael von Au (actor), Dieter Dorn (miscellaneous crew), Arnulf Schumacher (actor), Gisela Stein (actress), Helmut Pick (actor), Stefan Hunstein (actor),

King Lear (1982)

Actors: Michael Kitchen (actor), Anton Lesser (actor), John Bird (actor), Jonathan Miller (director), John Shrapnel (actor), William Shakespeare (writer), Penelope Wilton (actress), Michael Hordern (actor), Brenda Blethyn (actress), William Hobbs (miscellaneous crew), Shaun Sutton (producer), Ken Stott (actor), John Wilders (miscellaneous crew), Frank Middlemass (actor), Tony Sympson (actor),

Plot: 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.