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Casanova di Federico Fellini, Il (1976)

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Overview

Director:
Federico Fellini
Writers:
Giacomo Casanova (autobiography Histoire de ma vie)
Federico Fellini (writer) ...
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Release Date:
11 February 1977 (USA) more
Plot:
Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 5 wins & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
Excellent take on a rather fictional auto-biography of Casanova more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

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
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Casanova (Italy) (short title)
Fellini's Casanova (USA)
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Runtime:
155 min | 164 min (original version)
Country:
Italy | USA
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
New Zealand:R18 | Canada:18A (Ontario) | UK:X (original rating) | Finland:K-18 (cinema release) | Italy:VM14 (re-rated) (1997) | Germany:12 | UK:15 (DVD rating) | Australia:R | UK:15 (video rating) | Italy:VM18 (original rating) | Finland:K-15 (video rating) (1988) | Finland:K-18 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | Norway:18 | France:-12 | Iceland:16
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Trivia:
The distributors intended Robert Redford for the role of Casanova but Fellini refused to cast him. more
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. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Cinecittà: La casa di F. Fellini (2004) (V) more

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3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Excellent take on a rather fictional auto-biography of Casanova, 24 December 2005
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Author: Rodolfo Soriano Núñez (rsnunezmex@aol.com) from New York/Mexico City

Casanova is one of my favorite films by Fellini. Besides some technical problems with dubbing Donald Sutherland's voice in Italian, the film provides an excellent portrait of the pre-French Revolution Europe. Casanova is an stallion, but is a reflective, philosophical, and critical stallion questioning the day's conventional wisdom especially when dealing with one of Fellini's favorite subjects: females and, up to a certain extinct, forcing Sutherland to do what only Marcello Mastroiani was able to do: to channel Fellini himself. I do not know the reasons why Fellini decided to give Sutherland a chance and I have to admit that Sutherland makes a great effort in playing the part. Seeing some available portraits of Casanova I can see the reasons, but one would expect Fellini to be beyond that kind of constraints. Perhaps Mastroiani was too busy (looking at was entry here in the IMDb I can see that he did 5 movies in 1976, so perhaps he was overbooked). To think of Mastroiani in this role is more intriguing when one considers the amazing rendition of the very Casanova in Ettore Scola's "La nuit de Varennes." In "La nuit..." Mastroiani plays an aging Casanova even with the odd French with a strong Italian accent that was a trademark of Casanova's charm in the may European courts where the Venetian philosopher (yes, he loved to think of himself as such). Beside these problems, the film provides a powerful critique of Europe during the 1970s, as Fellini is able to see the obvious parallelism between the 1970s and Europe in the pre-French Revolution era. The film, by the way, benefited by the then recent publication of Casanova's memoirs in a critical edition that challenged the then prevailing understanding of Casanova as a sex-pot, something that Casanova himself rejected as is possible to see in the scene of the party at the British ambassador house. After watching the movie one would think at Casanova as some sort of sex-mystic introducing in the then Enlightened West, notions about sexuality similar to those of tantric sex, although still clinging to a male-oriented understanding of sex. It is important to stress also that,despite the effort to follow Casanova's account of is life, his auto-biography is full of historical contradictions and inconsistencies.

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