CASANOVA BBC DVD

Movie Description:
Men admire him, or want to punch his lights out. Women adore him. He`s cooland 18th century Europe is his playground. Ladies and gentlemen (butespecially ladies), meet the legendary Casanova! Rising from his ignominious birth, Giacomo Casanova transforms himselfinto a witty, intelligenthedonist gone wild. In betweenromanticassignations, Casanova meets the love ofhis life, the charming Henriette, but she hasalready made a financiallyadvantageous engagement to the wealthy Count Grimani and Casanova is heartbroken. When Grimani has Casanova arrested for crimes both real andimagined, Casanova makes a daring escapefrom prison, cutting a swathe through the capitals ofEurope as he seduces thewomen (and men) in his path andreinvents himself as a doctor, a lawyer,an astrologer, and evena fake nobleman.