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Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence

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Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence
Directed byLuigi Comencini
Screenplay bySuso Cecchi D'Amico
Produced byLuigi Comencini
StarringLeonard Whiting
Lionel Stander
Maria Grazia Buccella
CinematographyAiace Parolin
Edited byNino Baragli
Music byFiorenzo Carpi
Release date
  • 1969 (1969)
Running time
123 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

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

References

  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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