KEAN: GENIUS OR SCOUNDREL
synopsis
Edmund Kean is a popular British actor and theatrical nineteenth addicted to vices, however, and in debt. He contends with the Prince of Wales, his companion of excesses, the Danish ambassador's wife, but eventually falls in love with Anna, a young but promising rookie actress.
international title: | Kean: Genius or Scoundrel |
original title: | Kean - Genio e sregolatezza |
country: | Italy |
year: | 1957 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Vittorio Gassman |
film run: | 83' |
release date: | IT 04/03/1957, CH 06/07/1957, DE 1958, ES 04/02/1959, HU 05/07/1964 |
screenplay: | Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Vittorio Gassman, Francesco Rosi |
cast: | Vittorio Gassman, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gérard Landry, Cesco Baseggio, Mario Carotenuto, Anna Maria Ferrero, Nerio Bernardi, Bianca Maria Fabbri, Amedeo Girardi, Carlo Mazzarella, Mario Passante, Winni Riva |
cinematography by: | Gianni Di Venanzo |
art director: | Gianni Polidori |
costumes designer: | Marilù Carteny, Giulio Coltellacci |
music: | Roman Vlad |
producer: | Franco Cristaldi |