Kean: Genius or Scoundrel

Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
German theatrical poster
Directed by	Vittorio Gassman
Produced by	Franco Cristaldi
Written by	Suso Cecchi D'Amico Vittorio Gassman Francesco Rosi
Starring	Vittorio Gassman Eleonora Rossi Drago
Music by	Roman Vlad
Cinematography	Gianni Di Venanzo
Release dates	1956 (1956)
Language	Italian

Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (Italian: Kean - Genio e sregolatezza) is a 1956 Italian biographical drama film co-written and directed by Vittorio Gassman. A dramatization of the life of Edmund Kean, it is based on the 1836 drama play Kean, ou Désordre et Génie of Alexandre Dumas and on its 1953 adaptation with the same name by Jean-Paul Sartre.^[1]^[2]

Cast

Vittorio Gassman as Edmund Kean
Eleonora Rossi Drago as Countess Elena Koefeld
Anna Maria Ferrero as Anna Damby
Valentina Cortese as Fanny
Helmut Dantine as Lord Mewill
Carlo Mazzarella as Dario
Cesco Baseggio as Salomon
Nerio Bernardi as Count Koefeld
Mario Carotenuto as Peter Patt

References

↑ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.
↑ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.

External links

Kean: Genius or Scoundrel at the Internet Movie Database

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