''The Loves of Casanova'' or ''Casanova'' is a 1927 French Historical drama film directed by Alexandre Volkoff and starring Ivan Mozzhukhin,

Suzanne Bianchetti Suzanne Bianchetti (24 February 1889 – 17 October 1936) was a film actress. Suzanne Bianchetti appeared in her first film in the early 1900s and quickly became one of France's most loved and respected actresses. She appeared as Marie Antoine ...

and Diana Karenne. The film portrays the life and adventures of

Giacomo Casanova Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (, ; 2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, (''Story of My Life''), is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of information about the c ...

(1725-1798). Many of those involved with the film were Russian emigres who had come to France following the Russian Revolution.

Cast

Ivan Mosjoukine Ivan Ilyich Mozzhukhin ( rus, Иван Ильич Мозжухин, p=ɪˈvan ɨˈlʲjitɕ mɐˈʑːʉxʲɪn; —18 January 1939), usually billed using the French transliteration Ivan Mosjoukine, was a Russian silent film actor. Career in R ...

as Casanova *

Catherine II , en, Catherine Alexeievna Romanova, link=yes , house = , father = Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst , mother = Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp , birth_date = , birth_name = Princess Sophie of Anha ...

* Diana Karenne as Maria, Duchess de Lardi *

Jenny Jugo Jenny Jugo (born Eugenie Walter; 14 June 1905 – 30 September 2001) was an Austrian actress. She appeared in more than fifty films between 1925 and 1950. Biography Jenny Jugo was born Eugenie Walter on 14 June 1905, the daughter of a factory ...

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 Friedrich Rudolf Klein (24 November 1885 – 29 May 1955), better known as Rudolf Klein-Rogge, was a German film actor, best known for playing sinister figures in films in the 1920s and 1930s as well as being a mainstay in director Fritz Lang's ...

as Czar Peter III * Nathalie Lissenko *

Michel Simon Michel Simon (; 9 April 1895 – 30 May 1975) was a Swiss-French actor. He appeared in many notable French films, including ''La Chienne'' (1931), ''Boudu Saved from Drowning'' (1932), ''L'Atalante'' (1934), ''Port of Shadows'' (1938), '' The He ...

as henchman *Carlo Tedeschi as Menucci *

Maria Ivogün Maria Ivogün (18 November 1891 in Budapest – 3 October 1987 in Beatenberg, Switzerland) was a distinguished soprano singer of Hungarian origin. She was an especially outstanding interpreter of the works of Mozart: her recording of the aria o ...

as soprano

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.''

References

External links

* French historical drama films French silent feature films Films directed by Alexandre Volkoff 1920s historical drama films Films about Giacomo Casanova Cultural depictions of Catherine the Great French black-and-white films Cine-Allianz films Pathé films 1927 drama films Cultural depictions of Peter III of Russia Silent historical drama films 1920s French films 1920s French-language films {{Historic-film-stub