GIACOMO CASANOVA : CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE

By Luigi Comencini
1969, Italy, 2h03, vostf
Starring : Leonard Whiting, Claudio De Kunert, Maria Grazia Buccella, Senta Berger, Tina Aumont

 

Synopsis
Born to actors parents, the young Casanova was destined for a successful ecclesiastical career. But the hazards of life and his love of women decided otherwise. A magnificent evocation of the youth of the most famous of libertines, and an admirable reconstruction of daily life in 18th-century Venice.