Product Details

• Actors: Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne, Carmen Scarpitta, Clara Algranti
• Directors: Federico Fellini
• Producers: Fellini's Casanova
• Format: Import, PAL, Widescreen
• Language: English, German, Italian
• Subtitles: German
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Umbrella Entertainment
• Run Time: 148 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000C0GV5Q
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #343,427 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), French ( Mono ), German ( Mono ), Italian ( Mono ), German ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Documentary, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Fellini's Casanova is played by Donald Sutherland. The film takes great pains to debunk the myth of the Great Lover by presenting him as an ordinary human being swept up in extraordinary circumstances. This Casanova breezes through his various political and amorous adventures with an air of bored detachment, allowing the audience to 'fill in the blanks' regarding motivations and emotions. Though the film's plotline hopscotches all over Europe, Fellini lensed the picture entirely within the lavish confines of Rome's Cinecitta Studios. Danilo Donati won an Oscar for costume design, while Nino Rota (of Godfather fame) should have won for his musical score. A sumptuous visual treat!
SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, David Donatello Awards, Oscar Academy Awards, ...Fellini's Casanova

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must see for those who are able to see, March 10, 2006

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cvairag (Allan Hancock College) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fellini's Casanova [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ] (DVD)

I must admit to being an inveterate Fellini fan - I don't know what the sixties would have been without the string of great flicks which followed the seminal La Dolce Vita. That being said, Casanova was made in the mid-seventies - toward the end of the master's career - and is the work of a mature artist. Is Casanova an old man's film? In some ways, one has to have lived a bit to fully appreciate its humor, pathos, and greatness. I say, in my limited viewing of thousands of films (most before 1990), relative to the hundreds of thousands others have watched, Casanova ranks as one of the great historical re-creations, a sort of cinematic counterweight to Max Ophul's Lola Montez - and one of Fellini's most coherent, serious, and profound statements.

But none of these accolades could apply without the surprising, tour de force performance of Donald Sutherland (Keifer's daddy), who plays the legendary courtier. For those who are unaware of Sutherland Sr's career , he was `discovered' by Jane Fonda while he was gigging as a DJ in British Columbia, became a noted hunk on the Hollywood party scene, and started making films alongside his thoroughbred and talented girlfriend. O.K. Women loved him - but an acting talent? After many a mediocre performance, exactly how or why I do not know, he was cast by Fellini, of all folks, as Casanova. His date with destiny had arrived. And, somehow, like the proverbial understudy called on to star on opening night, or the bench player called on to start the biggest game of the season, he more than rises to the occasion. He gives the performance of a lifetime.

I have not seen the most recent film version of Casanova. However, there are scenes in Fellini's Casanova, such as the dance with the homonoculus, which are transcendent in their existential weight. Not a film for a keg-bash, an orgy, or a light laugh. Rather, an extended meditation on the emptiness to which the romantic impulse often leads, and how pearls before swine often end up trampled by them. A must see for the serious at heart, and about the heart.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very nice true widescreen transfer, January 5, 2012

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Brian D. (Washington DC) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Fellini's Casanova (DVD)

It's Fellini, so of course it's very good. But I couldn't tell when I ordered this made-on-demand release whether the DVD transfer was 'letterboxed' or true widescreen. It is true widescreen, and a nice transfer with very good image quality. I think now only Fellini's 'La voce della luna' remains unavailable on DVD. I hope someone is able to remedy that absence soon.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FINEST SATIRICAL MASTERPIECE!!, June 18, 2006

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Carlos Urrego "elbienpensante" (Fort Myers) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fellini's Casanova [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ] (DVD)

ANOTHER ONE OF FELLINI'S MASTERPIECES, ALONG WITH "LA STRADA", "SATIRICON", "AMARCORD" AND "8 AND 1/2"...

THIS FILM'S SCRIPT ,PHOTOGRAPHY, MUSIC AND ACTING IS SIMPLY OUTSTANDING!!!!..NOT TO MENTION FELLINI'S OWN VISION AND DIRECTION OF DONALD SUTHERLAND, WHO PERSONIFIES THE FAMOUS SCHOLAR, SEDUCER AND LOVER.

THE FILM DEPICTS CASANOVA AS A SEXUALLY INSATIABLE SCHOLAR AMONG THE CONTEMPORARY NOBILITY, WHO LEADS A VAGRANT'S LIFE.

HE WOULD SEDUCE ANY WOMAN, REGARDLESS OF HER AGE, SOCIAL, POLITICAL, INTELLECTUAL OR RELIGIOUS CONDITION.

THE MUSIC ADAPTATION FITS EVERY SINGLE SCENE IN THE FILM!!

A FILM ENTIRELY SHOT AT CINECITTA STUDIOS IN ROME, AND THE MOST CONTEMPORARY MASTERPIECE OF THIS ACCLAIMED DIRECTOR.