Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence

Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, religion, and--most of all--the omnipresence of hypocrisy.

Cast

Leonard Whiting

as Giacomo Casanova

Maria Grazia Buccella

as Zanetta

Lionel Stander

as Don Tosello

Raoul Grassilli

as Don Gozzi

Wilfrid Brambell

as Malipieri

Tina Aumont

as Marcella

Senta Berger

as Giulietta Cavamacchia

Mario Scaccia

as Dottor Zambelli

Claudio De Kunert

as Giacomo Casanova bambino

Silvia Dionisio

as Mariolina

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