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title: 'Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (1956)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Vittorio Gassman'
released: '1956-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 80
genres:
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'Italy'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/kean-genius-or-scoundrel-1956'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049399/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (1956)

1956 · 80 min · History · Italy

Original title: Kean: genio e sregolatezza

## Synopsis

Kean: Genius or Scoundrel is a 1956 Italian historical biographical film co-written, directed by and starring Vittorio Gassman. It also features Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gérard Landry and Valentina Cortese A dramatization of the life of nineteenth century actor Edmund Kean, it is based on the drama play Kean (1836) by Alexandre Dumas and its 1953 adaptation with the same name by Jean-Paul Sartre. It was Gassman's first film as director. It was screened at the Locarno Film Festival in 1957.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Vittorio Gassman](https://cinepixo.com/people/vittorio-gassman), [Francesco Rosi](https://cinepixo.com/people/francesco-rosi)
- **Screenplay:** [Alexandre Dumas](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexandre-dumas), [Vittorio Gassman](https://cinepixo.com/people/vittorio-gassman), [Francesco Rosi](https://cinepixo.com/people/francesco-rosi), [Suso Cecchi d'Amico](https://cinepixo.com/people/suso-cecchi-d-amico), [Luciano Lucignani](https://cinepixo.com/people/luciano-lucignani)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Roman Vlad](https://cinepixo.com/people/roman-vlad)
- **Producer:** [Franco Cristaldi](https://cinepixo.com/people/franco-cristaldi)
- **Director of Photography:** [Gianni Di Venanzo](https://cinepixo.com/people/gianni-di-venanzo)

## Cast

- [Valentina Cortese](https://cinepixo.com/people/valentina-cortese)
- [Pietro Tordi](https://cinepixo.com/people/pietro-tordi)
- [Cesco Baseggio](https://cinepixo.com/people/cesco-baseggio)
- [Carlo Mazzarella](https://cinepixo.com/people/carlo-mazzarella)
- [Nerio Bernardi](https://cinepixo.com/people/nerio-bernardi)
- [Dina Sassoli](https://cinepixo.com/people/dina-sassoli)
- [Mario Carotenuto](https://cinepixo.com/people/mario-carotenuto)
- [Anna Maria Ferrero](https://cinepixo.com/people/anna-maria-ferrero)
- [Vittorio Gassman](https://cinepixo.com/people/vittorio-gassman)
- [Helmut Dantine](https://cinepixo.com/people/helmut-dantine)
- [Eleonora Rossi Drago](https://cinepixo.com/people/eleonora-rossi-drago)

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