Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (Fellinis Casanova)

Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (Fellinis Casanova) | Italy 1976 | Dir: Federico Fellini | Scr: Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi, loosely based on Giacomo Casanova's »Histoire de ma vie« | Cin: Massimo Di Venanzo | Mus: Nino Rota | Cast: Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne, Carmen Scarpitta, Diane Kourys | 154 min | English original version The stages of Giacomo Casanova's flight after his escape from the leads of Venice in 1756 across Europe to his death at the court of Count Waldstein in Bohemia, shot in the Cinecittà studios, to which Fellini has increasingly withdrawn since the reconstruction of the Via Veneto for LA DOLCE VITA in order to explore his imaginations and phantasms. He particularly emphasizes the artificiality of the studio world here. Neither the historical reality in which Casanova lived nor his reputation as an adventurer and ladies' man interest Fellini.