Castle Dux, Bohemia, 1798. 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. We return to Casanova's childhood and humble beginnings as the son of an actor in Venice. As a young man he studies for the priesthood, but is expelled from his seminary, then meets and falls in love with Henriette... but the Duke of Grimani wants Henriette for himself.
Rose Byrne
Edith
Peter O'Toole
Giacomo Casanova
David Tennant
Giacomo Casanova
Matt Lucas
Villars
Laura Fraser
Henriette
Rupert Penry-Jones
Grimani
Shaun Parkes
Rocco
Nina Sosanya
Bellino
Clare Higgins
Cook
Freddie Jones
Bragadin
Ron Cook
Prisoner
Andrew Havill
English Chancellor
Dervla Kirwan
Casanova's Mother