Cast :
Diana Karenne (Maria Mari), Suzanne Bianchetti (Catherine II), Nina Kochitz (la comtesse Vorontzov), Olga Day (Lady Stanhope), Paul Guidé (Orloff), Albert Decoeur (le duc de Bayreuth), Carlo Tedeschi (Menucci), Jenny Jugo (Thérèse), Rina De Liguoro (la Corticelli), Rudolf Klein-Rogge (le tsar), Madame Sapiani (Barola), Nadia Valdy (une des filles de Barola), Michel Simon (un sbire), Paul Franceschi (un sbire), Jean Delannoy (un seigneur), Alexis Bondireff (un officier), Georges Douking (le géolier), Raymond Bouamerane, Camille Bardou
Production :
Ciné-Alliance, Société des Cinéromans, Les Films de France
Plot synopsis
Casanova leads a high life and great debauchery in the City of the Doges. Pampered by women, pursued by his creditors, he ends up attracting the wrath of his husbands who conspire with the Council of Ten to have him arrested and condemned. Casanova chooses to flee, and reaches Russia via Austria. He introduces himself to the Court of Tsar Paul III under the identity of a French milliner, becomes a close friend of Catherine the Great and witnesses her takeover against her husband. But his demon of women leads to his disgrace with the new Tsarina and, to escape prison, he must flee again. Returning to Venice in the middle of carnival, he multiplies adventures in the midst of a joyous tumult. Pursued for having killed one of his rivals in a duel, the Duke of Bayreuth, he is arrested and imprisoned in the Plombs, the sinister Venetian prison. His friends organize his escape. Once again, he prepares to flee the city by boarding a ship, unless... a beautiful Venetian woman glimpsed on the quay makes him give up his plan of exile for a while?
