Fellini’s Casanova

…collaborate on the screenplay of Casanova (1976).

…Sutherland as Giacomo Casanova in Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976; Fellini’s Casanova). The film treats Casanova, and, by proxy, Sutherland, unsympathetically. Reviewing his life, the great lover sees mostly grotesquery and humiliation. Paradoxically, he finds greatest satisfaction with an ingeniously engineered and lifelike automaton, mimed remarkably by Adele Angela…