Casanova flees Venice, taking with him Giac (pronounced 'Jack'), his young illegitimate son by a previous liaison, and Rocco, his servant. Grimani, enraged, has Casanova arrested and charged with witchcraft, but he escapes from prison. Bragadin offers to adopt him and Henriette agrees to marry him. While living on his wits and as a mystic, he does a good deed for Bragadin and comes into a fortune. He then meets and falls in love with Henriette, whom the Duke of Grimani wants for himself. ![]() As a young man he studies for the priesthood, but is expelled from his seminary. We return to Casanova's childhood and humble beginnings as the son of an actor in Venice. Casanova, now a penniless librarian in his seventies, begins to tell his life story to Edith, a young kitchen maid in the castle he works in. Brock Everitt Elwick as 11-year-old Giac CasanovaĬomedians Matt Lucas, Mark Heap, Simon Day and Matthew Holness make cameo appearances.Ĭastle Dux, Bohemia, 1798. ![]()
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