The Loves of Casanova

The Loves of Casanova
The Loves of Casanova
	Rina De Liguoro with Ivan Mosjoukine
Directed by	Alexandre Volkoff
Written by	Norbert Falk; Alexandre Volkoff; Ivan Mosjoukine
Produced by	Noë Bloch; Gregor Rabinovitch
Starring	Ivan Mosjoukine; Suzanne Bianchetti; Diana Karenne; Jenny Jugo; Rina De Liguoro
Cinematography	Fédote Bourgasoff; Léonce-Henri Burel; Nikolai Toporkoff
Production; companies	Ciné-Alliance; Deulig Europa-Produktion; Société des Cinéromans
Distributed by	Pathé
Release date	23 December 1927;
Running time	132 minutes
Country	France
Languages	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.^[1] 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.

Full film

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.^[2]

References

^ Hamilton, Nigel. Biography: A Brief History. Harvard University Press, 2009. p. 302. ASIN B0957SQ7T9. ISBN 0674024664.
^ Variety Staff (20 March 2002). "Costume Design Oscar Winners 1948 – 2000". Variety. Retrieved 25 February 2022.

External links

The Loves of Casanova at IMDb

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[1] Hamilton, Nigel. Biography: A Brief History. Harvard University Press, 2009. p. 302. ASIN B0957SQ7T9. ISBN 0674024664.

[2] Variety Staff (20 March 2002). "Costume Design Oscar Winners 1948 – 2000". Variety. Retrieved 25 February 2022.

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