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📺 Series

Casanova

📅 1971 ⭐ 3.4 🕐 50m GB GB

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.

Seasons & Episodes
Miniseries 6 episodes
E1
Steed in the Stable 1971-11-16
E2
One at a Time 1971-11-23
E3
Magic Moments 1971-11-30
E4
Window, Window 1971-12-07
E5
Fevers of Love 1971-12-14
E6
Golden Apples 1971-12-21
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