Andrea Chénier, also spelled Andrea Chenier, is a 1955 French-Italian historical musical melodrama film directed by Clemente Fracassi and starring Antonella Lualdi, Raf Vallone and Michel Auclair. It is loosely based on the eponymous 1896 opera by Umberto Giordano about the eighteenth century poet André Chénier.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Flavio Mogherini and Franco Zeffirelli. It was shot using technicolor and vistavision.

Andrea Chénier
Directed by	Clemente Fracassi
Written by	Luigi Illica (libretto) Clemente Fracassi Anna Gobbi Jacques Rémy
Starring	Antonella Lualdi Raf Vallone Michel Auclair
Cinematography	Piero Portalupi
Edited by	Mario Bonotti
Music by	Giulio Cesare Sonzogno
Production companies	Cigno Film Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France
Distributed by	Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France Lux Film
Release date	28 December 1955 (1955-12-28)
Running time	110 minutes
Countries	France Italy
Language	Italian

Cast

• Antonella Lualdi as Madeleine de Coigny
• Raf Vallone as Gérard
• Michel Auclair as Andrea Chénier
• Rina Morelli as mother of Andrea
• Sergio Tofano as Luigi Chénier
• Denis d'Inès as Countess of Coigny
• Mario Mariani as Maria Giuseppe Chenier
• Denis d'Inès as Countess of Coigny
• Piero Carnabuci as Count of Coigny
• Maria Zanoli as housekeeper
• Piero Carnabuci as count of Coigny
• Franca Mazzoni [it] as Countess of Coigny
• Alfredo Bianchini [it] as Incroyable
• Michael Tor [it] as English ambassador to Paris
• Antonio Pierfederici as Robespierre
• Franco Castellani [it] as Danton
• Marco Guglielmi as public prosecutor
• Angelo Galassi as president of the court
• Valeria Montesi as Idia Le Gray
• Marianna Liebl as hunting lady
• Claude Beauclair as Louis
• Charles Fernley Fawcett as French ambassador to London
• Catherine Valnay as Bersy
• Nando Cicero

References

External links

• Andrea Chénier at IMDb

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