Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence

Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence
Directed by Luigi Comencini
Written by Luigi Comencini
Suso Cecchi D'Amico
Starring Leonard Whiting
Lionel Stander
Maria Grazia Buccella
Music by Fiorenzo Carpi
Cinematography Aiace Parolin
Edited by Nino Baragli
Release dates
 1969
Running time
 102 min
Country Italy
Language Italian

Infanzia, vocazione e prime esperienze di Giacomo Casanova, veneziano (literally Childhood, Vocation, and First Experience of Giacomo Casanova, Venetian, internationally released as Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence and Casanova: His Youthful Years) is a 1969 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini.[1] It tells of the youth of Casanova, that, after an unhappy childhood and early ecclesiastical activity in Venice, became abbot, abandoned his vocation for the love of a countess; despite the plot, more than a portrait of Casanova the film wants to be 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 ago, in the seminary in Padua, Giacomo has experienced his first love, though he is destined to be a priest. While Giacomo now follows the seminary, the young noble is to sneak into his palace of beautiful girls that spends the night. One day, Giacomo falls in love with a beautiful countess, and so he decides to abandon his studies to become a priest for being a daring libertine.

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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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