| Don Giovanni | |
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| Directed by | Joseph Losey |
| Screenplay by | Rolf Liebermann Joseph Losey Patricia Losey Renzo Rossellini Frantz Salieri |
| Based on | Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (music) and Lorenzo Da Ponte (libretto) |
| Produced by | Robert Nador Michel Seydoux |
| Starring | Ruggero Raimondi John Macurdy Edda Moser Kiri Te Kanawa Kenneth Riegel José van Dam Teresa Berganza Malcolm King Eric Adjani |
| Cinematography | Angelo Filippini Gerry Fisher |
| Edited by | Reginald Beck Emma Menenti |
| Music by | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Distributed by | Artificial Eye (United Kingdom) New Yorker Films (United States) Gaumont (France) |
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Running time | 185 minutes (France) |
| Countries | France Italy United Kingdom Germany |
| Language | Italian |
| Budget | $7,000,000 US dollars[1] |
Don Giovanni is a 1979 French-Italian film directed by Joseph Losey. It is an adaptation of Mozart's classic 1787 opera Don Giovanni, based on the Don Juan legend of a seducer, destroyed by his excesses. The opera itself has been called one of Mozart's "trio of masterpieces". The film stars Ruggero Raimondi in the title role, and the conductor is Lorin Maazel. Nearly three decades after the film's release, Nicholas Wapshott called it a "near perfect amalgamation of opera and the screen".[2][3]
- ^ Caute, David (1994). Joseph Losey. Oxford University Press. p. 425.
- ^ Maddocks, Fiona (19 August 2011). "Top 50 Operas". The Guardian.
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