SHAKESPEARE

Alternative title

Edmund Kean, Prince Among Lovers

Synopsis

Feature film about Edmund Kean adapted from the play Kean by Alexandre Dumas père. The film makes reference to Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Othello and adds the death scene from Romeo and Juliet.

Country

France

Medium

Film

Technical information

Black-and-white / Silent

Year of release

1922

Duration

c100; 9000 feet

Credits

Director

Alexander Volkoff

Screenplay

Alexander Volkoff; Ivan Mosjoukine; Kenelm Foss

Cast

Pauline Po	Juliet
Ivan Mosjoukine	Kean
Nathalie Lissenko	Elena Koeffeld

Additional Details

Production type

Fiction Films

Plays

Hamlet; Othello; Romeo and Juliet

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Kean, Edmund (1787-1833)

Notes

Notes

Ball and the UCLA Film Archive give the release date as 1922, other sources cite 1924. Ball notes that at the time of writing Shakespeare on Silent Film there was a print in the Jugoslovenska Kinoteca, Beograd.

Available on DVD (Region 1) in 2013 as part of FRENCH MASTERWORKS: RUSSIAN EMIGRES IN PARIS 1923-1928.

General

Mosjoukine’s death scene (over 15 minutes) is said to one of the longest in cinematic history.

The play was popular with the studios - versions were made in Denmark in 1910 with Martinius Nielsen, a Brunestelli version from Italy in 1917 and in 1922 a German production directed by Rudolf Biebrachs.

Reviews

Ball, Robert Hamilton. Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1968 (pp268-9, 373).

Production Company

Name

Albatros

Archive

Name

UCLA Film & Television Archive

Email

arsc@ucla.edu

Web

http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/access/databases.html External site opens in new window

Phone

(310) 206 5388

Fax

(310) 206 5392

Address

Individual Access
Archive Study and Research Center
46 Powell Library
302 East Melnitz
Los Angeles
CA90095-1323
USA

Online Retailer

Name

amazon.com

Web

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