Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Federico Fellini

Writers:

Giacomo Casanova (autobiography "Storia della mia vita")
Federico Fellini (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

11 February 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Biography | Drama | History | Romance

Plot:

Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone...

Plot Keywords:

Casanova | No Ending Credits | Catholic Priest | Vagina Dentata | Necromancy

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 5 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Donald Sutherland	...	Giacomo Casanova
Tina Aumont	...	Henriette
Cicely Browne	...	Madame D'Urfé
Carmen Scarpitta	...	Madame Charpillon
Clara Algranti	...	Marcolina
Daniela Gatti	...	Giselda
Margareth Clémenti	...	Sister Maddalena (as Margareth Clementi)
Mario Cencelli	...	Moebius
Olimpia Carlisi	...	Isabella
Silvana Fusacchia	...	Isabella's sister
Leda Lojodice	...	Rosalba the Mechanical doll (as Adele Angela Lojodice)
Sandra Elaine Allen	...	Angelina the Giantess
Clarissa Mary Roll	...	Anna Maria
Alessandra Belloni	...	Princess
Dudley Sutton	...	Duke of Wuertemberg

Also Known As:

Casanova (Italy) (short title)
Fellini's Casanova (USA)

Runtime:

155 min | 164 min (original version)

Country:

Italy | USA

Language:

Italian | French | German | English | Czech | Latin | Hungarian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Germany:12 | Australia:R | UK:15 (DVD rating) | UK:X (original rating) | UK:15 (video rating) | Finland:K-15 (video rating) (1988) | Finland:K-18 (cinema release) | Italy:VM18 (original rating) | Italy:VM14 (re-rated) (1997) | New Zealand:R18 | Canada:18A (Ontario) | Argentina:18 (re-rating) | Argentina:X (original rating) | Finland:K-18 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | Norway:18 | France:-12 | Iceland:16

Filming Locations:

Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA)

Trivia:

The distributors intended Robert Redford for the role of Casanova but Fellini refused to cast him.

Quotes:

Giacomo Casanova: A man who never speaks ill of women does not love them. For to understand them and to love them one must suffer at their hands. Then and only then can you find happiness at the lips of your beloved.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Annie Hall (1977)

Marvellous theater in the best Fellini tradition

I have but one question: Why in the name of all that we call the cosmos is this film not available on DVD (or even VHS)? It is far superior and reflects much more the times and life of Casanova than the Chamberlain film that trudged its way from start to finish. Casanova was an eighteenth-century intellectual, an intellectual with very definite proclivities for womanizing. Fellini knew his subject and the many places where his subject found himself in a lifetime of incredible sights, sounds and adventures. Get this film out of the closet, dust it off and let us have the very positive experience of enjoying it in the sanctity of our own homes. It has been too long on ice. Someone "out there", get off your duff and let us have one of Fellini's best works.