Grigori Kozintsev's 'King Lear': the film could surely only have been made by someone who had experienced Russia's ravages in two world wars This presentation by Mr Bongo has only the bare bones; my ...

Grigori Kozintsev (1905-1973) was a prominent figure in Soviet cinema from his late teens until his death, making ambitious political films until after the second world war when he turned to literary ...

Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, ...