Fellini's Casanova is a 1976 Italian film by director Federico Fellini, adapted from the autobiography of Giacomo Casanova, the 18th century adventurer and writer. Shot entirely at the Cinecittà studios in Rome, the film won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design, with the Oscar going to Danilo Donati. The film portrays Casanova's life becomes a freakish journey into sexual abandonment. Any meaningful emotion or sensuality is eclipsed by increasingly strange situations. The narrative presents Casanova's adventures in a detached, methodical fashion, as the respect he yearns for is... constantly undermined by more basic urges. The film opens with a carnival in Venice as a prelude to a series of erotic encounters that follow Giacomo Casanova through the cities of 18th century Europe. It is during this festival that a gigantic bust fails to rise from the water, which is taken as a bad omen. Casanova is then introduced as he defiles a fake nun for the pleasure of a rich voyeur; Casanova succeeds in entertaining him, but he is frustrated that the man finds no interest in his alchemical research and further scheming.
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| Release date: | 1976 |
| Directed by: | Federico Fellini |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 148 Minutes |
| Producer: | Alberto Grimaldi |
| Editor: | Ruggero Mastroianni |
| Music by: | Nino Rota |
| Cinematography: | Giuseppe Rotunno |
| Screenplay by: | Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi |