Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence

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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.^[1] 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.^[2][3]

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.

• 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

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