Casanova's return
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Casanova's return |
| Original title | Le Retour de Casanova |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Edouard Niermans |
| script | Jean-Claude Carrière |
| production | Alain Delon |
| music | Bruno Coulais |
| camera | Jean Penzer |
| cut | Yves Deschamps |
| occupation | |
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Casanova's Return (Original: Le Retour de Casanova ) is a 1992 drama film starring Alain Delon and Fabrice Luchini .
action
After years of wandering, Giacomo Casanova is approaching his hometown Venice , from which he was once banished after his legendary escape from the lead chambers . Now, in the autumn of his life, impoverished and with no prospects, he decides to put himself in the service of his hometown in order to make it possible for himself to return home. But first he wants to conquer the heart of Marcolina, who, the more he desires her, the more she refuses. At the Olivios estate, an old acquaintance whom he once helped out of a tight financial situation - and whose wife he seduced - Casanova advertises one last time for a woman to whom he has become hopelessly addicted. But she rejects him.
Casanova uses a ruse to reach his goal. At a poker evening, Lorenzo, Marcolina's lover, plays to the bone. He owes the Marquis de Cesi 2000 lire - exactly the same amount that Casanova has just won. Casanova proposes a pact to the lieutenant: he settles his debts, in return he takes on the love night with Marcolina in his place. The lieutenant agrees. Casanova immediately rushes to Marcolina's bed, who in the dark takes him for Lorenzo. It is only in the early morning that she realizes with whom she has spent this hot night of love. Ashamed, she hides her face in her hands. Lorenzo, plagued by jealousy, awaits Casanova in the courtyard and challenges him to a duel. Casanova agrees. A fight breaks out in a remote olive grove, and the angry and angry Lorenzo runs into the cheerful and confident Casanova.
For Casanova this marks the end of another chapter in his life. In the final scene he is seen riding a gondola through the canals of Venice together with his servant Camille, approaching his destiny as an informant for the Serenissima .
background
Casanova's return is the cinematic implementation of Arthur Schnitzler's novel Casanovas Heimfahrt . The shooting locations were the Château de la Mogère in Montpellier and the Château d'Assas in Languedoc . The costumes were designed by Yvonne Sassinot de Nesle .
The film premiered on May 13, 1992 in France and has been available on German DVD since February 14, 2005.
Reviews
"Partly brilliant comedy with brilliantly acting main actors who, with all its ease, paints a coherent picture of the decadent bourgeoisie at the end of the 18th century."
"Without this film the world would not be poorer, with it it is a little more amusing."
Web links
- Casanova's return in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Histoire de ma fuite des prisons de la République de Venise qu'on appelle les Plombs. Ecrite a Dux en Boheme l'année 1787 . Leipzig 1788
- ↑ Château de la Mogère Châteaux France, accessed on July 11, 2020
- ↑ Château d'Assas , Sites remarquables Languedoc-Roussillon, accessed on July 11, 2020
- ↑ Casanova's return. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Casanova's Return Uncut Movies, accessed December 2, 2016