Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence

Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence
Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence
Directed by	Luigi Comencini
Screenplay by	Suso Cecchi D'Amico
Produced by	Luigi Comencini
Starring	Leonard Whiting; Lionel Stander; Maria Grazia Buccella
Cinematography	Aiace Parolin
Edited by	Nino Baragli
Music by	Fiorenzo Carpi
Release date	1969;
Running time	123 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (Italian: Infanzia, vocazione e prime esperienze di Giacomo Casanova, veneziano, lit. 'Childhood, Vocation, and First Experience of Giacomo Casanova, Venetian'), internationally released as Casanova: His Youthful Years, is a 1969 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini.^[1] It tells the youth of Giacomo Casanova, who, after an unhappy childhood and early ecclesiastical activity in Venice, became an abbot and abandoned his vocation for the love of a countess. Despite the plot, more than a portrait of Casanova, the film is more of a vivid fresco of the Venetian society of the time.^[2]^[3]

Plot

In 1742 in Venice, the young Giacomo Casanova is in a great trouble. A few years previously, in the seminary in Padua, Giacomo had experienced his first love, though he was destined to be a priest. While Giacomo now follows the seminary, the young noble is to sneak into a palace of beautiful girls and spend the night. One day, Giacomo falls in love with a beautiful countess, so he decides to abandon his studies to become a priest for being a daring libertine.

Cast

Leonard Whiting: Giacomo Casanova
Maria Grazia Buccella: Zanetta
Lionel Stander: Don Tosello
Raoul Grassilli: Don Gozzi
Wilfrid Brambell: Malipiero
Tina Aumont: Marcella
Mario Scaccia: Dottor Zambelli
Silvia Dionisio: Mariolina
Senta Berger: Giulietta Cavamacchia
Cristina Comencini: Angela Rosalba Mocenigo
Clara Colosimo: Giacomo Casanova's Grandma
Ennio Balbo: Mocenigo
Evi Maltagliati: Contessa Serpieri
Jacques Herlin: Monsieur Alexandre
Umberto Raho: Il vescovo
Linda Sini: Mother Teresa
Gino Santercole: Baffo
Gigi Reder: Salvatore

References

^ "La dolce educazione di Giacomo Casanova". La Stampa. January 7, 1970. p. 6.
^ Jean A. Gili. Luigi Comencini. Gremese Editore, 2005. pp. 63–66.
^ Orio Caldiron, Matilde Hochkofler. Scrivere Il Cinema: Suso Cecchi D'Amico. Dedalo, 1988. pp. 103–104.

External links

Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence at IMDb

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[1] "La dolce educazione di Giacomo Casanova". La Stampa. January 7, 1970. p. 6.

[2] Jean A. Gili. Luigi Comencini. Gremese Editore, 2005. pp. 63–66.

[3] Orio Caldiron, Matilde Hochkofler. Scrivere Il Cinema: Suso Cecchi D'Amico. Dedalo, 1988. pp. 103–104.

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