Queen Lear
About Queen Lear
Shakespeare's 'King Lear' travelling on the dusty and risky roads to the remotest forgotten villages in the mountains of Turkey where even drinking water can hardly reach, turns delicately into 'Queen Lear' in the hands of a peasant-women theatre group. In the early 2000s, a handful of peasant women from the mountains of southern Turkey formed a theater group, which later became the subject of the…
Queen Lear (2019) is a documentary film directed by Pelin Esmer.
Behiye Yanık, Cennet Güneş, and Ümmü Kurt lead the cast. At 84 minutes long, it arrived in August 2019.
In the United States it streams on DocAlliance Films, GuideDoc, and IndieFlix.