Kean (1940 film)

1940 Italian film

Kean

Directed by| Guido Brignone
Written by|

* Alexandre Dumas (play)
* Tomaso Smith
* Guido Brignone

Starring|

* Rossano Brazzi
* Germana Paolieri
* Sandro Salvini

Cinematography| Otello Martelli
Edited by| Giuseppe Fatigati
Music by| Edgardo Carducci

Production
company

Scalera Film

Distributed by| Scalera Film

Release date

* 6 April 1940 (1940-04-06)

Running time

| 78 minutes
Country| Italy
Language| Italian

Kean is a 1940 Italian historical drama film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Rossano Brazzi, Germana Paolieri. and Sandro Salvini.[1] It is based on the 1836 play Kean by Alexandre Dumas portraying the life of the English actor Edmund Kean.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfredo Manzi. It was shot at the Scalera Studios in Rome.

## Cast

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* Rossano Brazzi as Edmund Kean
* Germana Paolieri as Elena Koeffeld
* Sandro Salvini as Il conte Koeffeld
* Mariella Lotti as Anna Demby
* Filippo Scelzo as Il principe di Galles
* Dino Di Luca as Lord Mewill
* Nicola Maldacea as Salomone, il domestico
* Oreste Fares as Papà Bob
* Dina Sassoli as Evelyn Charleston
* Paolo Ferrari as Pistol, il ragazzino
* Edoardo Borelli as Eastman
* Renato Malavasi as Peter Patt
* Luigi Zerbinati as Dario, il parrucchiere
* Giulio Battiferri as Un acrobata
* Liana Del Balzo as Una invitata al ballo
* Armando Furlai as Un componente del circo
* Lina Marengo as Una donna del circo
* Alfredo Martinelli as Uno spettatore al teatro
* Cesare Polacco as Il medico
* Adriano Rimoldi as Orazio nell' Amleto

## References

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1. ^ Moliterno p.51

## Bibliography

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* Moliterno, Gino. The A to Z of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

## External links

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* Kean at IMDb

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The films of Guido Brignone

* The Painting of Osvaldo Mars (1921)
* The Pearl of Cleopatra (1922)
* The Two Sergeants (1922)
* The Flight of Socrates (1923)
* Saetta Learns to Live (1924)
* Emperor Maciste (1924)
* Maciste in the Lion's Cage (1926)
* The Giant of the Dolomites (1927)
* Mary's Big Secret (1928)
* The Man Without Love (1929)
* Devotion (1929)
* Before the Jury (1931)
* The Charmer (1931)
* La Wally (1932)
* Paradise (1932)
* Pergolesi (1932)
* Just Married (1934)
* The Little Schoolmistress (1934)
* Loyalty of Love (1934)
* Red Passport (1935)
* Ginevra degli Almieri (1935)
* The Ancestor (1936)
* Beggar's Wedding (1936)
* Marcella (1937)
* To Live (1937)
* For Men Only (1938)
* Under the Southern Cross (1938)
* Kean (1940)
* Beatrice Cenci (1941)
* The Gorgon (1942)
* Disturbance (1942)
* Maria Malibran (1943)
* Baron Carlo Mazza (1948)
* Buried Alive (1949)
* The Count of Saint Elmo (1950)
* Il nido di Falasco (1950)
* The Ungrateful Heart (1951)
* Deceit (1952)
* Ivan, Son of the White Devil (1953)
* Storms (1953)
* The Courier of Moncenisio (1954)
* Sunset in Naples (1955)
* Sheba and the Gladiator (1959)

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