Loves of Casanova (1927)
Casanova
A stupendous extravaganza!
Republic of Venice, 1760. Pursued by a vengeful husband, the intrepid womanizer Casanova, who symbolizes the decline of the city and its fall into debauchery, manages to escape and, by a circuitous route, arrives in Saint Petersburg, where he will be involved in the many plots that threaten the throne of Czar Peter III…
- Date of release
- 1927-10-08
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (13)
- Runtime
- 2h 8m
- Genres
- Drama, Adventure
- Director
- Alexandre Volkoff
Casting
- Ivan Mosjoukine — Casanova
- Diana Karenne — Maria Mari
- Suzanne Bianchetti — Catherine II
- Jenny Jugo — Thérèse
- Rina De Liguoro — Corticelli
- Nina Koshetz — Countess Vorontzoff
- Olga Day — Lady Stanhope
- Paul Guidé — Orloff
- Albert Decoeur — Duke of Bayreuth
- Carlo Tedeschi — Menucci
- Raymond Bouamerane — Pickaninny
- Rudolf Klein-Rogge — Peter III
Interesting facts
The Loves of Casanova or Casanova is a 1927 French Historical drama film directed by Alexandre Volkoff and starring Ivan Mozzhukhin, Suzanne Bianchetti and Diana Karenne. The film portrays the life and adventures of Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798). Many of those involved with the film were Russian emigres who had come to France following the Russian Revolution. A sound version was prepared by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer in 1929. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it features a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.
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