Don Giovanni [videorecording] / Gaumont Camera 1, the Paris Opera, Antenne 2 present ; a film by Joseph Losey in collaboration with Frantz Salierei from an idea by Rolf Liebermann ; adaptation by Joseph Losey, Patricia Losey, Frantz Salieri.
Title from sell sheet. Release date: Jan. 22, 2013. Based on the opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (music), and Lorenzo Da Ponte (libretto). Originally produced as a motion picture in 1979. Ruggero Raimondi, John Macurdy, Edda Moser, Kiri Te Kanawa, Kenneth Riegel.
Summary:
Filmed on location in Vincenza, Italy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operatic masterpiece, Don Giovanni, is translated to film by director Joseph Losey. Set in Seville in the 1600s, a young nobleman Don Giovanni is a well-known philanderer with a long list of conquests. After he attempts to seduce the beautiful Donna Anna, her father's battle to protect her honor ends in tragedy. Anna and her fiance Don Octavio pledge to seek revenge, while Giovanni continues to charm and trick the local women.
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