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Casanova
Casanova film poster
Directed by	Lasse Hallström
Produced by	Mark Gordon Betsy Beers
Written by	Jeffrey Hatcher Kimberly Simi Michael Cristofer
Starring	Heath Ledger Jeremy Irons Sienna Miller Oliver Platt Natalie Dormer
Distributed by	Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s)	December 25, 2005
Running time	108 min.
Language	English
IMDb profile

For Italian director Federico Fellini's film of the same name see Fellini's Casanova

Casanova is a 2005 comedy film directed by Lasse Hallström based on the life of Giacomo Casanova.

• Tagline: A partially true story about lies told, virtue lost and love found.

In 1753, in Venice, Casanova (Heath Ledger) is famous/notorious for his success and promiscuity with women. The Doge, the ruler of the city, is sympathetic to Casanova, but cannot be too lenient, to avoid trouble with the church. He warns Casanova that he must soon marry or be exiled from the city.

Casanova is in love with Francesca (Sienna Miller), who writes illegal feminist books under the name of a man. However, her mother (Lena Olin) pushes her to marry Paprizzio (Oliver Platt), a corpulent rich man from Genova, whom she has never seen. When Paprizzio arrives in Venice, Casanova lies to him that the hotel he booked is closed and lets him stay at his house. Casanova also lies that he is the author of the feminist books. While Paprizzio, preparing to visit Francesca, stays at Casanova's house, Casanova visits Francesca, pretending to her to be Paprizzio.

Later he confesses to her who he really is, which makes her angry. Casanova is arrested for crimes against sexual morality, such as debauchery and heresy with a novice. He saves Francesca by pretending to be the author of the feminist books, which impresses her very much. However, the truth comes out, and both are sentenced to death. Just in time, when they are about to be hanged in the city square, they are saved by a fake announcement that the Pope, because of his birthday, gives amnesty to all prisoners who were to be executed on this day. It was discovered that it was an impostor who ended up being his step father, wedded to his mother that came back for him like she promised as a child. As they escaped together, leaving on Paprizzio's boat, Giovanni Bruni (Charlie Cox) stayed behind to continue Casanova's womanizing legend in his place.

• Heath Ledger - Giacomo Casanova
• Sienna Miller - Francesca Bruni
• Jeremy Irons - Pucci
• Oliver Platt - Paprizzio
• Lena Olin - Andrea Bruni
• Omid Djalili - Lupo
• Stephen Greif - Donato
• Ken Stott - Dalfonso
• Helen McCrory - Casanova's mother
• Leigh Lawson - Tito
• Tim McInnerny - The Doge of Venice
• Charlie Cox - Giovanni Bruni

• Casanova at the Internet Movie Database
• Casanova at Rotten Tomatoes

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