Don Giovanni (1979 film)

Don Giovanni
Theatrical poster
Directed byJoseph Losey
Screenplay byRolf Liebermann
Joseph Losey
Patricia Losey
Renzo Rossellini
Frantz Salieri
Based onDon Giovanni
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (music) and Lorenzo Da Ponte (libretto)
Produced byRobert Nador
Michel Seydoux
StarringRuggero Raimondi
John Macurdy
Edda Moser
Kiri Te Kanawa
Kenneth Riegel
José van Dam
Teresa Berganza
Malcolm King
Eric Adjani
CinematographyAngelo Filippini
Gerry Fisher
Edited byReginald Beck
Emma Menenti
Music byWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Distributed byArtificial Eye (United Kingdom)
New Yorker Films (United States)
Gaumont (France)
Release date
  • 1979 (1979)
Running time
185 minutes (France)
CountriesFrance
Italy
United Kingdom
Germany
LanguageItalian
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]

  1. ^ Caute, David (1994). Joseph Losey. Oxford University Press. p. 425.
  2. ^ Maddocks, Fiona (19 August 2011). "Top 50 Operas". The Guardian.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Wapshott was invoked but never defined (see the help page).