Don Giovanni (1979 film)

Don Giovanni is a 1979 FrenchItalian film directed by Joseph Losey. It is an adaptation of Mozarts classic opera Don Giovanni, based on the Don Juan legend of a seducer, destroyed by his excesses. The film stars Ruggero Raimondi in the title role, and the conductor is Lorin Maazel. It was rereleased on DVD in 2008.

Donna Anna soon realizes that Giovanni killed her father, and she pursues the seducer along with her fiance Don Ottavio tenor Kenneth Riegel. Ever ready to attempt a seduction, Giovanni woos Elviras maid. As part of his plans, he switches clothes with his servant Leporello bassbaritone Jos van Dam, who rapidly finds himself in trouble with people who mistake him for his master. Leporello flees and eventually meets Giovanni at the cemetery where Il Commendatore is buried. They jokingly invite the statue at his grave to dinner. While they are dining, the supernaturally animated statue arrives, and the horrified Giovanni is drawn into an openpit fire.In the opera, the action supposedly takes place in Spain, but Mozarts librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte wrote in Italian, and this film uses locations in Venice and the Veneto. In particular, the film features buildings by Palladio in and around the city of Vicenza Basilica Palladiana, Villa Rotonda and Teatro Olimpico. ........

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