Have been watching Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet (or rather Gamlet, because Russian has no h--in the late great war they found themselves first allied with, then fighting the legions of one Adolf Gitler) and King Lear (Korol Lir). Both with screenplays by Pasternak, and Hamlet with a score by Shostakovich into the bargain.
They are superb, especially the Lear, infinitely superior to the 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company production (with Ian McKellen absurdly costumed like a Cossack hetman and Cordelia a Hermès filly who has indulged in rather too many technicolor yawns, to use the Ozberts' phrase).
Kozintsev's Lear is almost certainly better than any English production, or at least any I know of.
Netflix has both of these Kozintsev films.
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