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
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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