Casanova | |
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Directed by | René Barberis |
Written by | René Barberis |
Produced by | Jean de Merly |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Raoul Aubourdier Fédote Bourgasoff |
Music by | Pierre Vellones Walter Winnig |
Production company | M.J. Films |
Distributed by | La Compagnie Indépendante de Distribution |
Release date | 12 March 1934 |
Running time | 94 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Casanova is a 1934 French historical comedy drama film directed by René Barberis and starring Ivan Mozzhukhin, Jeanne Boitel and Madeleine Ozeray.[1] The film's sets and costumes were designed by the art director Boris Bilinsky. It is loosely inspired by the life of Giacomo Casanova.
The mid-Eighteenth Century. Casanova leaves his native Venice for Grenoble in France. There he has a fling with the attractive Anne Roman. Sometime later in Paris, he thwarts the plot of Madame Pompadour against Anne who has become Louis XV's new mistress.