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Fellini's Casanova

Year:

1977

Duration:

155 min | 164 min (original version)

Genres:

Biography | Drama | History | Romance

IMDB rate:

7.1

Director:

Federico Fellini

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 6 wins & 3 nominations

Details

Country: Italy

Release Date: 1977-02-11

Filming Locations: Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Cast

Actor

Character

Tina Aumont

Chesty Morgan

Donald Sutherland

Giacomo Casanova

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

Majorite Belle

Countess of Waldenstein

Daniel Emilfork

Marquis Du Bois (as Daniel Emilfork Berenstein)

Luigi Zerbinati

Pope

John Karlsen

Lord Talou

Reggie Nalder

Faulkircher

Hans van de Hoek

(as Hans Van Den Hoek)

Mariano Brancaccio

Dancer

Angelica Hansen

Hunchbacked Lady

Diane Kurys

Madame Charpillon

Norbert Losch

Admiral at dinner table

Mary Marquet

Casanova's mother

Marika Rivera

Astrodi

Dan van Husen

Viderol

Francesco De Rosa

Servant of Casanova in London (uncredited)

Mario Gagliardo

Righetto (uncredited)

Donald Hodson

Hungarian captain (uncredited)

Elisa Mainardi

Party guest (uncredited)

Gennarino Pappagalli

Servant of Prince Dal Brando (uncredited)

Isabel Pisano

(uncredited)

Pietro Torrisi

Brute Man (uncredited)

Jean-Claude Vernè

Party guest (uncredited)

Renato Zero

Opera Dancer (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Fellini thought that Casanova was an evil character because "he did not love." The original script was very brutal on the historical figure. It wasn't until Fellini shot the scene of Casanova and the nun that he began to sympathize with Casanova's inability to love, giving him the character of the mechanical doll and the dream ending.

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The distributors intended Robert Redford for the role of Casanova but Fellini refused to cast him.

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Fellini had to re-shoot parts of this movie, including the elaborate Venice carnival scene, when several reels of film were stolen at the Technicolor labs of Tiburtino, Rome, in August 17, 1975. The thieves were apparently interested at Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), and some reels of this film were also stolen, along with half of Damiano Damiani's spaghetti western 'Un genio, due compari, un pollo (1975)_. Apart from the re-shoots, this theft also forced Fellini to abandon a sequence featuring 'Barbara Steele'. The negatives were never found.

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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.

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