Casanova
Italian adventurer and libertine Giovanni Jacopo Casanova lived from 1725 to 1798, but in this six-part series Dennis Potter attempted to find a contemporary relevance through his central themes of sex and religion. He commented that Casanova "was concerned with religious and sexual freedom, and these are the things we have to address ourselves to now." Casanova was imprisoned in Venice in 1755, and Potter used that event as a central device, constantly inter-cutting to contrast Casanova's amorous escapades, radiant, joyful and brightly lit, with his oppressive solitary confinement in the gloom of a half-darkened cell.
Episodes
Venetian morality guardians burst into the apartments of notorious libertine Giovanni Jacopo Casanova. He is indicted for atheism, possession of indec...
Bragadin uses his influence to have Casanova moved to a larger, better-lit cell — just as he was making headway on an escape tunnel. Discovering the h...
Continued incarceration and the conversation of his cellmate are starting to take toll on Casanova. His mind is cast back to a visit he once made to M...
The act of impulsively throwing a stone through a window sparks a chain of memories from Casanova. He reflects on his Venetian prison experiences as h...
On a journey to London, Casanova meets an Englishman so thick he may as well be Lorenzo's double, and reunites with Schalon, whose pomposity has only...
Casanova longed for books during imprisonment; now, as an old man, he is surrounded by them. Aged 73, he works as a librarian in a German castle, alth...
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