Aleksandr VOLKOFF Александр ВОЛКОВ Aleksandr VOLKOFF   France, 1923, 70 mn  Black and white, silent, fiction

Edmund Kean: Prince Among Lovers ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Кин, или гений и беспутство    Kean ou désordre et génie  Kin, ili geniy i besputstvo

Plot synopsis

The film tells the story of Kean, a very important British actor who specialized in Shakespeare's oeuvres. Kean has a lot of admirers, but in spite of his fame, he is without money. He is in love with the married Countess of Keffeld, who uses Kean for her own purposes. The end of the film is different from the end of the play. In the film, Kean, who has become poor and abandonned by the society, dies in the arms of the countess.

Selected in the following festivals :

- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2009

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