"Jealous love leads to destruction." 22 January 1988 Drama, Comedy 91 mins
A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
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Peter Sellars as William Shakespeare Junior the Fifth
Burgess Meredith as Don Learo
Julie Delpy as Virginia
Leos Carax as Edgar
Molly Ringwald as Cordelia
Jean-Luc Godard as Professor Pluggy
Woody Allen as Mr. Alien (uncredited)
Freddy Buache as Professor Quentin Kozintsev (uncredited)
Menahem Golan as Self (voice) (uncredited)
Suzanne Lanza as (uncredited)
Kate Mailer as Self (uncredited)
Norman Mailer as Self (uncredited)
Michèle Pétin as Journalist (uncredited)
Peter Sellars Writer
Jean-Luc Godard Writer
Norman Mailer Writer
Jean-Luc Godard Director
Jean-Luc Godard Editor
Sophie Maintigneux Director of Photography
Ludwig van Beethoven Music
Johann Sebastian Bach Music
Menahem Golan Producer
Yoram Globus Producer
Tom Luddy Associate Producer
William Shakespeare Theatre Play
Richard Debuisne Writer
Jean-Luc Godard's King Lear Trailer
Canada 15 September 1987
Switzerland 24 September 1990
France 03 April 2002
Italy 01 January 2013
Japan 10 August 1998
United States 11 February 2025
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1988:
01 September 1988
In Spain during the civil war. The American journalists Erin Wright and Robert Minelli enjoy their lives in bars.
16 April 1988
Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest.
12 December 1988
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives.
31 May 1988
A slightly goofy look at the three rivers that help define Pittsburgh
10 June 1988
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
01 January 1988
Skin and Bones gently introduce us to the world of anorexia and bulimia. The heroines of this moving film in which reality and fiction merge are called Annie, Andréanne, Hélène, Eisha.
26 November 1988
A veteran vice cop has a hard time dealing with her partner's suicide.
14 January 1988
The story begins with formation of the new government when an honest person, Satya Murthy (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) becomes Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.
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