The Loves of Casanova
{{Short description|1927 film}}
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{{Infobox film
|name = The Loves of Casanova
|image = The Loves of Casanova.jpg
|caption = Rina De Liguoro with Ivan Mosjoukine
|director = Alexandre Volkoff
|producer = Noë Bloch
Gregor Rabinovitch
|writer = Norbert Falk
Alexandre Volkoff
Ivan Mosjoukine
|starring = Ivan Mosjoukine
Suzanne Bianchetti
Diana Karenne
Jenny Jugo
Rina De Liguoro
|cinematography = Fédote Bourgasoff
Léonce-Henri Burel
Nikolai Toporkoff
|studio = Ciné-Alliance
Deulig Europa-Produktion
Société des Cinéromans
|distributor = Pathé
|released = {{Film date|1927|12|23|df=yes}}
|runtime = 132 minutes
|country = France
|language = Silent Version
French Intertitle
Sound (Synchronized)
English Intertitles
}}
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.Hamilton, Nigel. Biography: A Brief History. Harvard University Press, 2009. p. 302. {{ASIN|B0957SQ7T9}}. {{ISBN|0674024664}}. 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 in 1929 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.
Cast
- Ivan Mosjoukine as Casanova
- Suzanne Bianchetti as Catherine II
- Diana Karenne as Maria, Duchess de Lardi
- Jenny Jugo as Thérèse
- Rina De Liguoro as Corticelli
- Nina Koshetz as Countess Vorontzoff
- Raymond Bouamerane as Djimmy
- Olga Day as Lady Stanhope
- Albert Decoeur as Duke of Bayreuth
- Dimitri Dimitriev as Lord Stanhope
- Paul Franceschi
- Paul Guidé as Gregori Orloff
- Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Czar Peter III
- Nathalie Lissenko
- Michel Simon as henchman
- Carlo Tedeschi as Menucci
- Maria Ivogün as soprano
Music
The sound version features a theme song entitled “Until the Moon” by Julian Wright (words) and Horace Shepherd (music).
Costume design
Boris Bilinsky designed with Barbara Karinska who went on to win an Oscar in 1948 for her color costume design on Joan of Arc.{{Cite web|author=Variety Staff|date=2002-03-20|title=Costume Design Oscar Winners 1948 – 2000|url=https://variety.com/2002/film/awards/costume-design-oscar-winners-1948-2000-1117864185/|access-date=2022-02-25|website=Variety|language=en-US}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0017736}}
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Category:French silent feature films
Category:Films directed by Alexandre Volkoff
Category:1920s historical drama films
Category:Films about Giacomo Casanova
Category:Cultural depictions of Catherine the Great
Category:French black-and-white films
Category:Cultural depictions of Peter III of Russia
Category:Silent French historical drama films
Category:1920s French-language films
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