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Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence is a italien film of genre Drama directed by Luigi Comencini with Leonard Whiting
Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969)
Infanzia, vocazione e prime esperienze di Giacomo Casanova Veneziano
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Add to a movie listInfanzia, vocazione e prime esperienze di Giacomo Casanova, veneziano (literally Childhood, Vocation, and First Experience of Giacomo Casanova, Venetian, internationally released as Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence and Casanova: His Youthful Years) is a 1969 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. It tells of the youth of Casanova, that, after an unhappy childhood and early ecclesiastical activity in Venice, became abbot, abandoned his vocation for the love of a countess; despite the plot, more than a portrait of Casanova the film wants to be a vivid fresco of the Venetian society of the time.
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In 1742 in Venice, the young Giacomo Casanova is in a great trouble. A few years ago, in the seminary in Padua, Giacomo has experienced his first love, though he is destined to be a priest. While Giacomo now follows the seminary, the young noble is to sneak into his palace of beautiful girls that spends the night. One day, Giacomo falls in love with a beautiful countess, and so he decides to abandon his studies to become a priest for being a daring libertine.Actors
Leonard Whiting
(Giacomo Casanova)
Maria Grazia Buccella
(Zanetta)
Lionel Stander
(Don Tosello)
Tina Aumont
(Marcella)
Raoul Grassilli
(Don Gozzi)
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