MASTERPIECE: CASANOVA

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• Release Year: 2005
• Genre: Comedy; Drama
• Plot: Men admire him, or want to punch his lights out. Women adore him. He's cool and 18th century Europe is his playground. Ladies and gentlemen (but especially ladies), meet the legendary Casanova!; ; Rising from his ignominious birth, Giacomo Casanova thransforms himself into a witty, intelligent hedonist gone wild. In between romantic assignations, Casanova meets the love of his lif, the charming Henriette, but she has already made a financially advantageous engagement to the wealthy Count Grimani and Casanova is heartbroken. When Grimani has Casanova arrested for crimes both real and imagined, Casanova makes a daring escape from prisin, cutting a swathe through the capitals of Europe as he seduces the women (and men) in his path and reinvets himself as a doctor, a lawyer, an astrologer, and even a fake nobleman. ; ; Based on the historical Casanova's infamous memoirs, Materpiece Theatre's rollicking re-telling stars the iconic Peter O'Toole (Lawrence of Arabia, Troy) as the aging lothario recounting his adventures, David Tennant (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) as the youthful Casanova, and Laura Fraser (He Knew He Was Right) as the unobtainable Henriette.
• Cast: Rose Byrne; David Tennant; Peter O'Toole; Rupert Penry-Jones; Shaun Parkes; Laura Fraser; Nina Sosanya; Antonio Lujak; Clare Higgins; James Holly; Brock Everitt-Elwick; Martin Oldfield; Matt Lucas; Freddie Jones; Richard James; Ron Cook; David Foxxe; Tamzin Griffin; Andrew Havill; Andrew Vincent; Dervla Kirwan; Rory MacGregor; Annette Badland; John Sandilands; Angus Wright; Rosanna Lavelle; Tim Scott-Walker; Graham Padden; Zac Fox; Ian Ralph; Mark Heap; Steve Money; Selina Cadell; Nickolas Grace; Dominic Thomas-James; Daisy Haggard; Joe Cooper; Rosalie Craig; Natalie Richards; Gabriella Greenblatt; Raymond Coulthard; Glenn Cunningham; Tom Burke; Matthew Holness; Naomi Bentley; David Corden; Vincent Franklin; Jim Whelan; Jeanne Mockford; Glynis Brooks; Katrine De Candole; Glenna Morrison; Lucinda Raikes; Simon Day; Maro Drobnic; Suzanne Roche; Kerry-Jane Hardman; Karen Aspinall; Lee Dyson; Ewan Bailey; Johnathan Brenner; Rory McGregor; William Towers; Daisy Doidge-Hill; Sheree Folkson; Russell T. Davies
• Director: Sheree Folkson
• Runtime: 2:52
• Company: Red Production Company, Powercorp, BBC Wales, Granada Television, WGBH Boston Video
• Media Format: Series