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Casanova

Casanova

1927Movie⏱️ 2h 12m
BiographyDrama
7.1
IMDB Rating
285 votes

A flamboyant portrait of the famous seducer seen by a former baritone of the Moscow Opera who, after a vocal accident, leaves for Germany and then France to devote himself to cinema.

Director
Alexandre Volkoff
Writers
Norbert Falk, Ivan Mozzhukhin, Alexandre Volkoff
Stars
Ivan Mozzhukhin, Suzanne Bianchetti, Diana Karenne
Release Date
February 16, 1929
Language
None, French
Country
France, Germany
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Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Ivan Mozzhukhin
Ivan Mozzhukhin
as Casanova
Suzanne Bianchetti
Suzanne Bianchetti
as Catherine II
Diana Karenne
Diana Karenne
as Maria Mari, Duchess de Lardi
Jenny Jugo
Jenny Jugo
as Thérèse
Rina De Liguoro
Rina De Liguoro
as Corticelli
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Nina Koshetz
as Countess Vorontzova
👤
Olga Day
as Lady Stanhope
👤
Paul Guidé
as Gregori Orloff
👤
Albert Decoeur
as Duke of Bayreuth
👤
Carlo Tedeschi
as Menucci

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Silent
Filming Location
Venice, Veneto, Italy
Production
Ciné-Alliance, Deulig Europa-Produktion, Société des Cinéromans

🏷️ Keywords

giacomo casanova charactercharacter name in title

🎯 Categories

BiographyDrama

⭐ Featured Review

"I have loved women to madness but I have always loved liberty more."
by brogmiller2021-10-08
8/10

"Providing one can overlook its biographical inaccuracies this is a gloriously entertaining piece. As the title character Ivan Mozzukhin is wonderfully seedy and combines a lightness of touch with the look of a sexual predator who encounters precious little resistance. This great actor's sense of comedy is very much to the fore in the scene where he gives a manicure to crackpot Czar Peter 111 played by the excellent Rudolf Kleine-Rogge. The eagle-eyed might spot an uncredited young Michel Simon as a buffoonish soldier. Venice of course loomed large in Casanova's life and the images ..."

💡 Did You Know?

Nina Koshetz's debut.

📖 Synopsis

A flamboyant portrait of the famous seducer seen by a former baritone of the Moscow Opera who, after a vocal accident, leaves for Germany and then France to devote himself to cinema.