Casanova | |
Director: | René Barberis |
Producer: | Jean de Merly |
Music: | Pierre Vellones Walter Winnig |
Cinematography: | Raoul Aubourdier Fédote Bourgasoff |
Studio: | M.J. Films |
Distributor: | La Compagnie Indépendante de Distribution |
Runtime: | 94 minutes |
Country: | France |
Language: | French |
Casanova is a 1934 French historical comedy drama film directed by René Barberis and starring Ivan Mozzhukhin, Jeanne Boitel and Madeleine Ozeray.[1] The film's sets and costumes were designed by the art director Boris Bilinsky. It is loosely inspired by the life of Giacomo Casanova.
The mid-eighteenth century. Casanova leaves his native Venice for Grenoble in France. There he has a fling with the attractive Anne Roman. Sometime later in Paris, he thwarts the plot of Madame Pompadour against Anne who has become Louis XV's new lover.