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Release Date: 16 Tue, Nov 1971
Italian adventurer and libertine Giovanni Jacopo Casanova lived from 1725 to 1798, but in this six-part series Dennis Potter attempted to find a contemporary relevance through his central themes of sex and religion. He commented that Casanova "was concerned with religious and sexual freedom, and these are the things we have to address ourselves to now." Casanova was imprisoned in Venice in 1755, and Potter used that event as a central device, constantly inter-cutting to contrast Casanova's amorous escapades, radiant, joyful and brightly lit, with his oppressive solitary confinement in the gloom of a half-darkened cell.
6 Episodes
as Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
as Lorenzo
as Cristina
as Barberina
1983
1993
2021
2005
2016
2016
2019
2014
1980
2017
2000
2024
2010
2019
2021
2022
2022
1973
1975
