Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (Italian: 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. 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.
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Plot
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.
Cast
Leonard Whiting: Giacomo Casanova
Maria Grazia Buccella: Zanetta
Lionel Stander: Don Tosello
Raoul Grassilli: Don Gozzi
Wilfrid Brambell: Malipiero
Tina Aumont: Marcella
Mario Scaccia: Dottor Zambelli
Silvia Dionisio: Mariolina
Senta Berger: Giulietta Cavamacchia
Cristina Comencini: Angela Rosalba Mocenigo
Clara Colosimo: Giacomo Casanova's Grandma
Ennio Balbo: Mocenigo
Evi Maltagliati: Contessa Serpieri
Jacques Herlin: Monsieur Alexandre
Umberto Raho: Il vescovo
Linda Sini: Mother Teresa
Gino Santercole: Baffo
Gigi Reder: Salvatore