| Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence | |
| Music: | Fiorenzo Carpi |
| Runtime: | 123 minutes |
| Country: | Italy |
| Language: | Italian |
Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (it|'''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]
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.
Giacomo Casanova
Zanetta
Don Tosello
Don Gozzi
Malipiero
Marcella
Dottor Zambelli
Mariolina
Giulietta Cavamacchia
Angela Rosalba Mocenigo
Giacomo Casanova's Grandma
Mocenigo
Contessa Serpieri
Monsieur Alexandre
Il vescovo
Mother Teresa
Baffo
Salvatore