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Director:
Simon Langton
Writer:
George MacDonald Fraser (writer)
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Release Date:
1 March 1987 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
A very long, beginning-to-end life story of an eighteenth century womanizer that is arrested, not so much for his crimes... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. more
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A fine, quick ride through a very long memoir more (2 total)

Cast

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Richard Chamberlain ... Giacomo Casanova

Faye Dunaway ... Madame D'Urfe
Sylvia Kristel ... Maddalena
Ornella Muti ... Henriette
Hanna Schygulla ... Casanova's Mother

Sophie Ward ... Jacqueline
Frank Finlay ... Razetta
Roy Kinnear ... Balbi
Kenneth Colley ... Le Duc
Richard Griffiths ... Cardinal
Patrick Ryecart

Jean-Pierre Cassel ... Louis XV
Toby Rolt ... Young Giacomo Casanova
Bruce Purchase ... Major Grandi
Traci Lind ... Heidi
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Il veneziano, vita e amori di Giacomo Casanova
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Runtime:
122 min
Country:
UK | USA | West Germany | Italy
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Iceland:16 | USA:Unrated
Company:
Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) more

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6 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
A fine, quick ride through a very long memoir, 7 October 1999
Author: ericl-2 from New York NY

I caught this on TV one night by chance, and was cheerfully drawn in. Only later did I find out why it was so much fun.

George MacDonald Fraser, author of the "Flashman" novels, should have been signed up by Hollywood a long time ago and put to work reworking classics of the swashbuckling and devil-may-care varieties into entertaining and literate movies. As it is, he's only had a handful of chances to do so, principally "Octopussy,", Richard Lester's "Musketeers" movies and Lester's (regrettably lackluster) adaption of Fraser's own "Royal Flash."

So we're lucky to have this TV film, a quick and highly entertaining run through some of the highlights of the rascally Venetian's memoirs. Chamberlain is fine in the title role, Faye Dunaway is fine too as one of his lady friends, and everybody clearly has a great time. For a "prestige" TV production, the direction is surprisingly zippy, although it could have shown a bit more visual wit to match the writing -- but that's a minor problem. Enjoy the work of a great parodist. Now, if they'd just let Fraser adapt his wonderful satirical novel "The Pyrates" for the big screen (Oops! "Cutthroat Island" seems to have sunk any chance of that happening...)

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