King Lear

King Lear is a 1971 British film adaptation directed by Peter Brook and starring Paul Scofield as King Lear, Irene Worth as Goneril, Susan Engel as Regan, Anne-Lise Gabold as Cordelia, and Alan Webb as Gloucester. The film was shot in stark black-and-white and inspired by the absurdist theatre of playwrights such as Samuel Beckett. It tells the story of a proud man who solicits praise from his three daughters in return for inheritance of the kingdom, leading to his fatal error.