- 5/25/2025
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Casanova flees Venice, taking with him Giac, his young illegitimate son by a previous liaison, and Rocco, his servant. He heads for Paris, as he knows that Venetian ambassadors abroad are able to grant pardons. Starring: Peter O'Toole, David Tennant, Rose Byrne.
Casanova flees Venice, taking with him Giac, his young illegitimate son by a previous liaison, and Rocco, his servant. He heads for Paris, as he knows that Venetian ambassadors abroad are able to grant pardons. Starring: Peter O'Toole, David Tennant, Rose Byrne.
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00:00We ran out of the wall, but stayed close, so we could linger with the little stolen
00:08music and finish the dance.
00:38We should make plans for tomorrow, because your fiancé's not going to be too pleased.
01:07We should lie low for a bit. I've got this friend. He's practically second cousin to
01:12the illegitimate daughter of the Doge. He can get a special dispensation to leave the
01:15city. We can just slip away, over the water, out of the lagoon and gone.
01:19And then what?
01:20I've got friends in Trentino. Nice little villa. No servants. We can hide. Just you
01:26and me.
01:27And then what?
01:28Well, like I said, we'll wait a couple of months and then we'll come back.
01:30And then what?
01:31Well, then we can start a proper life together.
01:34And then what?
01:36What do you mean, and then what? And then do whatever we want.
01:38And then what?
01:39I don't know.
01:40Exactly. You're making it up as you go along.
01:43I've always done that, and I've always survived. And so have you.
01:48Romani knows what he's doing every day for the rest of his life. His family's been here
01:52for centuries, never changing.
01:58But you've left him.
01:59I'm not with him right now. Doesn't mean I've left him.
02:06Then what are you doing with me?
02:08Just one dance.
02:13I love you.
02:14For God's sake.
02:15I do.
02:16What's the point of saying that? To get me into bed?
02:18Marry me.
02:19Stop it.
02:20Henriette, will you marry me?
02:25How much money have you got?
02:27Enough.
02:28Do you know where the next purse is coming from?
02:30Is it all about money?
02:31Yes, it is. Of course it is. Everything is.
02:33Then I'll get money. You've seen me. I'm a born alchemist. I can magic gold out of thin air.
02:37And lose it again.
02:42Come on. Come with me.
02:44Where are we going?
02:46I'm taking you home.
02:57I was born here, and I will never come back.
03:00I was born with hardly a thing.
03:03As bad as this?
03:06Your money comes and goes on a whim.
03:09Romani's money is forever.
03:11My children will grow up protected.
03:14But you won't be happy.
03:16Idiots are happy. I'll be safe.
03:19I could never live like that.
03:22No.
03:24I don't think you could.
03:27Which only proves that you deserve better than me.
03:33We should go before the smell contaminates us.
03:39You're with the wrong man.
03:41I know.
03:43You haven't said.
03:46Do you love me?
03:50Yes.
03:53Yes.
03:56Completely.
03:59But I need him.
04:01And...
04:05Thank you for tonight.
04:09Thank you for the dance.
04:30She went back to him.
04:36I'd never do that.
04:38Oh, says the kitchen girl.
04:40Lapping up stories of the rich folk.
04:43Don't you want better?
04:45But she loved you.
04:46But she was right.
04:48Look at me.
04:50An old librarian in a cold castle.
04:55Henriette saw this waiting for me.
05:00Did you see her again? You must have, did you?
05:06I did.
05:07But how?
05:09It seems important to you that this story has a happy ending.
05:12You can't blame me for that.
05:14No, indeed.
05:15Girls your age with no experience like to imagine it all ends well.
05:19Is that right, though?
05:22No experience at all?
05:24I've told you.
05:26I'm as God intended until my wedding night.
05:30But you must have practiced.
05:32Everyone practices.
05:34Who was it, that boy you grew up with?
05:37Did you fight with him one day for just a little too long?
05:41Or perhaps that friend of your father's?
05:44The way he looked at you.
05:46And you liked it.
05:48I can't think why it's important.
05:50Is that what I am?
05:52Practice?
06:01If you want me to go, sir...
06:04No.
06:06Sit down.
06:17I had to endure it.
06:21Grimaldi and Henriette.
06:23At every turn, there they were, blessed and celebrated by society.
06:28The date of their wedding was set for that winter.
06:32And all I could do was watch.
07:03The Wedding
07:22Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.
07:24Again.
07:26Um... I don't know where to start.
07:28Um...
07:30It's money, Father.
07:32Love of money is a sin, isn't it?
07:34A grave sin.
07:36I don't love it as such, but I need it. Is that a sin?
07:39In too great a measure, then, yes.
07:41It's not for me. You see, there's this woman.
07:44I suppose you can include lustful thoughts while you're at it.
07:47There's this woman, but she's engaged.
07:49And all this went on behind her fiancé's back.
07:52Not literally.
07:54Although I have actually done that.
07:56Anyway, first of all, I was with another woman, and I slept with her, sorry.
08:00Well, I slept with her lots of times, so very sorry.
08:04But before that, she was a man.
08:06I was going to sleep with a man, sorry.
08:08But it turned out she had a false penis down her trousers.
08:11So I slept with her, without the false penis, obviously.
08:14Although we did find a way of using it.
08:16But never mind that.
08:18I was just trying to be honest, like the sisters told me.
08:21Oh, yeah, two sisters. I slept with them, both at the same time.
08:25Er, lots of times, I suppose I should mention that.
08:28Oh, dear God! I know, I know.
08:30But at least I didn't sleep with their mother.
08:33Although I have actually done that.
08:36I suppose you should put that on the list.
08:38Two sisters and a mother and...
08:41Oh, and those nuns. Two nuns. You might know them.
08:45So, all in all, it's been a bit of a time, really, and I've ended up penniless.
08:51So, what do you think I should do, Father?
08:56Father?
08:59Father?
09:04Appointment of mercury applied directly to the chest.
09:07Send to the leech farm.
09:09Um, excuse me, but I don't think that's doing him any good.
09:11Bleed him from the groin.
09:12It's brain fever. Bottle his spit and feed it back.
09:15No, really, excuse me.
09:17Open the skull.
09:18I don't mean to be rude, but you're making it worse.
09:20Just give him water and let him rest.
09:23What would you do, sir? Murder him?
09:25Now, keep out of the way.
09:26Suck out the spinal fluid.
09:27I've read about this. I know what I'm talking about. I swear.
09:30Have this man taken out. He's not even qualified.
09:33I'm trying to help.
09:34Take out his tongue.
09:35Pliers!
09:38Leave him alone!
09:40You are killing this man, and by God, I won't let that happen.
09:44Now, get out of this room.
09:48Out!
09:59If he dies, then you can arrest me.
10:05But let me try.
10:19There you are.
10:22That's it.
10:30That's it. Little pause.
10:35One more time.
10:41I can't read you that. It's filthy.
10:43Oh, let me see.
10:44Shame on you.
10:45It's filthy.
10:46Oh, let me see.
10:47Shame on you. God is watching.
10:56I told you he was putting it on.
10:58Oh, says the charlatan.
11:02Look at you, back at work.
11:04That's why I wanted to see you, and I want no arguments. Is that understood?
11:09But you saved my life, Giacomo.
11:12My fault in the first place.
11:13No, no, no. I'd be cold in the earth if it wasn't for you.
11:17I've had the procurator draw this up.
11:22The church has been my family all my life.
11:27I had no son to benefit from my estate,
11:31until I found a son in you.
11:36In that deed, there is an allowance and property and the right to inheritance.
11:42I suppose it could be in safer hands, but none more deserving.
11:52Sir, your family's been part of the aristocracy for centuries.
11:57If I accepted this, I'd become nobility itself.
12:04That's too much, sir. I can't take it.
12:06Oh, all right, then.
12:13I'm...
12:16rich?
12:20I'm rich! I'm rich! I'm rich! I'm rich! I'm rich!
12:27I'm rich.
12:32This isn't just a quick purse of money gone by tomorrow.
12:35It's proper, old, steeped-in-the-land money.
12:39And everything I've got is for you.
12:41If you could put that in writing.
12:43Really, though, Jack, you're a dangerous man.
12:45You could lose money in a gold mine.
12:47Don't squander this.
12:49This is tied to the Braggarton family.
12:51Their land and their estates, it's forever.
12:56So where does that leave us?
13:00If you're worried about Grimani, I'll tell him. I'm not scared.
13:03I don't want to fight.
13:05No, but I mean, I don't think you should.
13:07I don't want to fight.
13:08No, but I mean, I'd go to see him in your name.
13:12This has to be done with honour.
13:14Grimani said he loved me. He gave me this ring.
13:17I should be the one to tell him.
13:20Then you will?
13:22Yeah.
13:23You'll tell him?
13:24Yeah.
13:26That we're engaged?
13:28Yeah.
13:29We're engaged?
13:31Am I going too fast?
13:34Oh, bloody hell!
13:36Oh, my Lord, look, I got this. I bought it.
13:39I didn't know if you'd want to. I thought you might, but...
13:42Oh, bollocks! I'm sorry. Hold on.
13:47I found it.
14:13I find myself a son, and next minute, a daughter.
14:21I saw Grimani this morning. A broken man, the poor soul.
14:24Well, his family owns half of Venice. He won't be sad for long.
14:27But you're all driving mail. You're the talk of the town.
14:30They've drawn caricatures. Your faces are everywhere.
14:33Congratulations, sir.
14:35Mum, may I say, it's about bloody time.
14:39You cheeky dog.
14:41You know, I don't think I need a manservant anymore.
14:43Rocco, you're dismissed.
14:45And as Casanova's wife, I'll need a head of household.
14:48Rocco, you're promoted.
14:50Tell me, though, dear lady, what's it like bedding this handsome man?
14:53What's he got hidden away?
14:55Oh, draw me pictures.
14:57I'm afraid I can't, I wouldn't know. Not to a woman.
15:00Giacomo, a virgin? When do the wheel turn upside down?
15:03Sorry, but it's true.
15:05What's wrong? Are you ill?
15:07It's the only power a woman has, and I won't give mine away.
15:09But I don't have to wait long. We're getting married next week.
15:12Braggarton's conducting the service. Casanova and his bride.
15:16Giacomo Casanova,
15:18I arrest you in the name of the great council of Venice
15:21for offences against the government and church.
15:24You are to be confined within the city boundaries
15:26until such time as charges can be brought.
15:28Such charges be
15:30the theft of property from the house of Grimani
15:33and the defamation of the Grimani name.
15:35Let me go!
15:37Jack! Jack!
15:39Let me go!
15:41Let me go!
15:43Let me go!
15:45Let me go!
15:47Jack!
15:49Jack!
15:51Jack!
15:54...the inquisition.
15:56That you did, by your public confession,
15:58act as a spy against this state with intent to betray city defences.
16:01That you did assault various persons
16:03within the families Tosello, Cavamacci, Imer and Bertaggio.
16:07That you did fraudulently impersonate various professions
16:10with the intent to steal money and cause physical harm.
16:13That you did assault and threaten the life of the court physician
16:16and defame his name and reputation.
16:19That you did impersonate a nobleman
16:21with the intent of robbing the house of Bragadin
16:23and defrauding the family of its inheritance.
16:26And against these charges, my lords,
16:28the prosecution demands the maximum sentence
16:30to be instituted forthwith.
16:33Guilty!
16:52KNOCK AT DOOR
16:54What did they get you for?
16:58A woman.
17:00How long did you get?
17:0415 years.
17:06But don't worry about me, I won't be here long.
17:08Oh, don't tell me.
17:10I know.
17:12You've got friends and contacts and powerful men.
17:15They'll have you out by tomorrow.
17:17I have got contacts. I'm the adopted son of a nobleman.
17:19Adopted son?
17:22Not true, nobility.
17:25I bet the judges could smell it.
17:28They despise a man for rising above his station.
17:31If you're waiting for a pardon, you'll wait a long time.
17:34Then I'll find another way out.
17:36Ah, but that's the genius of this place.
17:39We're not locked in a dungeon.
17:41No, we're up in the roof.
17:43Ten floors up at the top of the Ducal Palace.
17:47If you get past that locked door, then there's another.
17:50And then another.
17:52And another.
17:54Ten floors of them.
17:56You'd need to be a magician.
17:58Are you a magician?
18:00I can be.
18:02Then magic's failed you.
18:04I've been here 12 carnivals and no man's escaped.
18:07They tempt us with a carnival every year.
18:10You can hear the festivities.
18:12The music carries up.
18:14It's part of the punishment.
18:17Dancing and singing.
18:19It all goes on.
18:21Hundreds of feet down.
18:24All of the city.
18:26Dancing and singing.
18:29And forgetting.
18:39Then there was Christina.
18:41She used to sleep naked with her uncle, a priest.
18:45Well, I mean, I had to put a stop to that, didn't I?
18:47I said, you can share my bed.
18:49What did she look like?
18:51Braven black hair.
18:53Long white neck.
18:54Tiny waist.
18:56Magnificent chest.
18:58Oh, yes.
18:59I said, let's both lie here naked.
19:02Let's see if we can both lie here and not move in the dark.
19:06Oh, yes.
19:08I looked at her.
19:10Reached out towards her, and not with my hand.
19:13Oh, my God.
19:14Touched her.
19:16Pressed up against her.
19:18Faster, faster.
19:21To be continued.
19:22You can't stop there.
19:27Any good?
19:28Read it before.
19:30In French and Latin, I've had time to read them all.
19:37What about Henriette? Any word?
19:39Well, I'm not sure.
19:40There's a story going round, but...
19:45Hey, Braggarton's given me a job running the stables.
19:48He's a nice bloke.
19:49Don't let him down. What story?
19:55It's more than just a story, sir.
19:59It's Sunday night.
20:01This Sunday coming.
20:05And it's not her fault, mind.
20:07There was nothing else she could do.
20:09Henriette was with you, sir.
20:10She was engaged to the city's most infamous criminal.
20:13She was disgraced.
20:14She's been an outcast for months now.
20:17She didn't have any choice.
20:22She's getting married, sir.
20:24Sunday night.
20:26To Grimani.
20:29You don't have to call me sir any more.
20:31I don't even think he wants her.
20:33The bastard.
20:34It's just his revenge against you.
20:36She'll be rich.
20:37That's not it.
20:38I swear to God, sir, she doesn't want him.
20:40But Grimani, he's done everything.
20:43He's summoned her sisters.
20:44He's set them up with rooms and clothes.
20:46It's like he's bought her out right.
20:48What the hell was I saying?
20:49I don't know.
20:50I don't know.
20:51I don't know.
20:52I don't know.
20:53I don't know.
20:54I don't know.
20:55I don't know.
20:56I don't know.
20:57It's like, what the hell with her sisters?
20:58She doesn't have to marry.
20:59She could just run.
21:01You could do that, sir.
21:02A man could do it easily.
21:03You sound like her.
21:06You've seen her.
21:08What did she say?
21:09Did she ask about me?
21:10What did she say?
21:12She can't visit you, sir.
21:15She's disgraced enough.
21:16Tell me what she said.
21:19She came to the lodging, sir.
21:22She was distraught, sir.
21:24I was just cleaning out your room and she arrived didn't say a word just
21:33She took off her engagement ring
21:37She took the diamond and she used it
21:42She scratched on the window
21:44And
21:54She left you a message, what does it say?
22:10So she thinks I'll just forget no sir, it's
22:15An instruction
22:22You can go
22:25It's not over though you'll win that appeal you will in the end get out there steal her back I can't
22:32Once she's married, that's it. Come on. He now owns her entire family. She would never sacrifice her
22:41She's gone
22:44I
22:51Said you can go
23:14I
23:44I
24:14I
24:44I
25:00Can get you out, this is my home
25:04Do what you like and tell them I had better things to do what if there's no way down
25:09I'll find it and then what you can't stay in the city. You'll be a fugitive
25:15You'll be exiled from Venice for the rest of your life. I'll come back
25:19You'll never see this place again. And what then lost abroad with no money
25:24No title don't position and I'll hunt you down. They'll never forget. You'll never stop running
25:31You'll still be a prisoner wherever you go
25:34Is it worth it magician?
25:37Is it worth it?
25:40Henriette did you see her again? She found me
25:43And I suppose led me to an even greater love
25:49Who is that
25:53You've got to tell me the rest not giving up now
25:57Henrietta Marnie. I
26:00Remember my father reading out her name one last time
26:04When Napoleon's troops stood at the gates of Venice and the council met and surrendered
26:11They say as the city was dissolved after a thousand years the widows were lamenting
26:16And Henriette was there. It was just a mention
26:19But she was one of them
26:22It was always the ladies my father always picked out their names, I think you'd have liked him
26:31Sir
26:33You
26:39What that was last year
26:45The dissolution of Venice was last year. Yes last year. That's right. So may the 12th. Oh
26:54My god
26:56You didn't know
26:57It's alive sir, she's still alive and she's a widow
27:02Grimani's dead
27:03She's hot there. So she's still out there
27:28You
27:34They're not today that's gonna cost how can he afford it? Who are they messengers?
27:39He's sending out letters him upstairs. Mr. Cass of bloody Nova. What sort of letters? I don't know. They're going to Venice
27:47Urgent he said some sort of panic a bit of lucky might be in trouble
27:52If he gets the sack, I'm gonna kick him all the way down the hill. You'll just watch me
27:58I
28:10Had to sneak away I saw the horsemen I've written to the Grimani estate
28:14The summer house even the convent one of them's bound to reach her and it's a minimum of two days a day to reach
28:21Venice and a day to return I could hear from her by tomorrow
28:28Well, you won't prove anything standing out here come back to your room it's freezing come now
28:39Here we are
28:40Now sit down and rest. You shouldn't go exerting yourself. You look worn out. You've only seen me by candlelight
28:46I'll remember that with Henrietta eyes. I look better in the dark. You can't know for sure that she's still alive
28:52It's only something my father read the moment you said it it made sense and I've been hiding in this castle
28:58She'll think me long since perished. She never told her where you were. I deserve to be forgotten
29:05What did you do?
29:08All right, what's changed now then Henry as a widow and for my part I found you oh, yes me
29:14I'm the answer to everything. What have I done?
29:18It brought me back to life
29:23But I've only had half the story I want to hear everything then come back to a knife
29:33Couldn't get here any sooner
29:35Here you are. I don't think anyone saw me
29:38The cellar's almost empty. Stuart's men are drinking it dry
29:41Hot place is running wild with the master gone. Oh
29:47Two cups
29:50One's for me I like it gives the impression we're dining together. It's just a drink indeed
30:01Get on with the story
30:03Where were we?
30:05Leaving Venice wasn't the end of my life. I
30:09Fled the city and my new life began. I
30:12Was a fugitive an outlaw exiled from home
30:17Stripped of money and possessions and title with only my wits to help me survive
30:26Morning you look like shit. Well, I look like you watch your lip commoner. Yeah. Come on. Oh
30:37I must be stinking. I don't think I've been followed but we must hurry
30:42The whole town is talking about your escape you can take the carriage. This is all the money
30:47They would allow me to withdraw. It's not much 500 zucchini. Is that all they know? I'm your patron
30:55You could post me money send it by messenger Jack. Oh, they're watching me. You've endangered all of us
31:02There you go. Come on up meet up
31:06And you owe me for that I'm keeping a tab
31:12Where
31:15Will you go
31:18There is a chance
31:20Venetian ambassadors abroad have the authority to pardon you they could clear your name and you could come back
31:27What for Henry? It's married. I've lost her. You seem to be forgetting. You're innocent. You deserve to be pardoned
31:35Come home Jack
31:38There's
31:40An ambassador in Paris, that'd be good. I fancy a bit of France
31:44Yeah, the girls the food the vino calypso you'd come with me. No, you'd come with me. You're the criminal carry my bags
31:55Thank you, no, I think it's soft no, but thank you. Thank you
32:02And I'll make it work Rocco we'll go to Paris the two of us together
32:08That's the three of us
32:12You're not coming surely
32:14We know no, I'm not
32:24They named him after you Jack, this is your father
32:33Casanova and son
32:38His
32:42Mother was Teresa Cacioli. She died on Easter Day and the boy was brought to me
32:48Last request was that Jack should know his father. How do you know that me she could be lying
32:52She was a nun. Yeah, but the mother dead the convent was forbidden to keep him. Can't he stay with you?
32:59I represent the church. It would bring scandal at my house. I'm on the run
33:04Brings that better than living on the street. I were rather he was safe in the hands of a very clever
33:15Teresa
33:18You know, she looked like she was a nun
33:22Lot of you I suspect there are hundred pastors with your features. You're lucky. You're only saddled with one
33:29And maybe this is what you need
33:32Someone more important than the next conquest all those disasters. Is that the way to live your life?
33:41It's the grace of God a chance to start again you can help the boy
33:47educate him
33:49Yeah, inspire. Yes impart your wisdom. Yes, make him a man. Yes. Absolutely
33:55Yes, did you leave me any money? She was a nun
34:02Oh
34:12And this is nice
34:21Here we are the wheels on the carriage go round and round
34:32Jack we're going to Paris and Paris is capital of
34:39France I'll be testing you on this
34:43That's my name people call me Jack. Can we change his name? No
34:48Lorenzo Caesar
34:50Marco Stefano Giovanni Alison
34:55No
34:57He looks nothing like me
35:05Are we there yet
35:08We traveled across Europe borrowing money and stealing clothes
35:12Arriving in Paris at the celebrated court of King Louis the 15th
35:16Right
35:20I need a title. What's my title?
35:24Well, let's make one up
35:26What's the name of that river we pass the same same the same?
35:31saying name
35:34So fix saying God saying God yes, I shall gain access to the court as the chevalier
35:46Just
35:51Just wait there just stay
35:58Sing out not heard of it. Is that a significant territory enormous? And where is it exactly?
36:04It's not so much a place more of a state of mind now, sir
36:08All I require is an audience with the Venetian ambassador delighted sir. You speak very good French, by the way. Thank you
36:13How's my act well Italian obviously, but the ladies might like it now sir, it's my pleasure to welcome you to the royal court
36:43Oh
37:01It's super in the summer. Oh my goodness. You're handsome. Yes. I am. What brings you to Paris?
37:06I just need to see the Venetian ambassador at your service. Oh
37:10Fuck me your head. Yes. I am. And you know, I won't
37:15My name is Giacomo Casanova that Chevalier de Sango and I just need a favor. Could you call that handsome?
37:26Look at you
37:27Think I knew you when you were a boy Jack. It's glorious. I'm such a success
37:32And don't think I'm not grateful. It's all you're doing. Oh, I was just a passenger you had a talent all of your own
37:39I'd still be in hiding if you hadn't found me now. I'm singing on every stage and celebrated across Europe
37:46And you oh, I'm fine. Everything's marvelous. Yeah, I
37:51Heard about what happened takes more than prison bars to stop me
37:55about Henriette
38:00Was she worth it? Yes
38:04I'm sorry
38:06Yeah
38:09Still you can move on now, that's what you've always done. Oh
38:18Sweetheart I
38:20Wish there was something I could do, but I've simply got to go. I'm doing Naples of all places
38:25I've got 17 engagements and it's all so busy. It's super you'll be fine Jack
38:30I'll say a prayer, but I don't know anyone else. Can you stay just for a bit? I haven't even packed yet
38:34Oh, if you knew my schedule, they're aiming a horse after me. Oh, I'm sorry. Don't forget me Jack
38:42Wait a minute. Did you say Casanova the man who escaped from prison climbed over the roof? That's me. Oh sweet Lord. You're famous
38:49They've written the pretzels about you and everything
38:53That's me
39:04I
39:21Need to pop back to Venice just a little bit of business
39:24That's all and um, well, I thought that you could grant me a pardon and clear my name gosh, that would be nice
39:29Can you do it impossible, but I'm entirely innocent of every charge against me. That doesn't matter
39:33You're just too famous. Now. Your name's a liability. If I forgave you, I'd lose all credibility
39:39Sorry, but I've got to get back
39:42Oh for God's sake yes
39:44I might understand that you falsified your way to the court of King Louis the 15th when you are in fact a convict a criminal and
39:50an escapee
40:03I
40:12Told you to light your way in there and have a made you king right now lost your neck. It's different now
40:17I'm gonna be legitimate. I'm a father. I've got responsibilities
40:21Where is he Jack?
40:24He'll
40:26It's my duty to earn a living and to earn it honestly for his sake. I come second now. It's all for him
40:33My father was a fool and a cuckold and he died when I was seven. I want a Jack down in the same way
40:38I'll set an example
40:40No
40:41More than that. I'm an inspiration father is the god of a child's world. That's why I am to him the creator
40:49plenty of fathers in this situation would
40:51Despair and send the child of a chimney, but not me. I will find money and I will support
40:58All I need is one good idea
41:03It's
41:04Stupid bloody money these French are crazy. They should have the same coin everywhere right across Europe much easier Jack
41:10Where is he now?
41:13The way I see it you got look at your options to earn an honest living ask yourself this what are you good at?
41:19Hmm one music you can write for the opera play your fiddle sing doesn't pay that much us now
41:25That's one. Okay to teaching you can do languages and sums and things
41:31You could be a chewer
41:32Think about it three
41:35Sex. Well, actually that's number one find a wealthy widow get rich of the otter. So you decide what's it gonna be? One, two, three
41:43Go on choose one of them
41:45Your choice lucky dip one, two, three pick a number
41:51Go on pick a number
41:57One
42:01Four
42:18They see it's a brand new scheme, it's like a lottery
42:21In fact, that's what it is a lottery right across the nation a national lottery. What would you call it?
42:26I don't know King could make a fortune with 10% for me and you could even give some of the money to good causes
42:33God help with that
42:34But you think people would actually play I've got to be in it to win it and just think
42:39Could be you by God Casanova. Let's do it release the balls
42:56Oh
42:58Oh
43:00Oh
43:23You invented the lottery you don't believe me and it's on public record
43:29You became a millionaire. Oh, yes. Well, then never mind the law or the ambassadors
43:33That's enough money to sweep back home and claim Henrietta's your own except while I made my fortune the rest of the world didn't stand
43:40still
43:41Court circulars would arrive from Venice and with them came the news
43:47Henrietta had born Primani a child
43:50The one thing that would keep her married always
43:54My money meant nothing
43:56Henrietta would never risk the safety of her child. She was further away than ever
44:01I
44:25Miss Jack now you can be proud of me Maison Casanova
44:2925 staff and a ballroom and a library and a room just for the wrapping of presents
44:37We've got everything
44:39Isn't your old dad clever?
44:41Isn't he? Oh
44:44Yes, he is
44:48And look your father's written a book you see it's the story of my time in prison it's a bestseller, isn't that good
44:56And look at this, it's a lyric by Voltaire and it mentions me
45:02Voltaire's and famous and clever and well
45:06Yeah, I can't stand the man, but isn't that good my name?
45:11Anything
45:16And look look look look at this
45:19I've written an opera for singers with a list
45:22I've written an opera for singers with a lisp. It's almost entirely devoid of the letter s. Isn't that clever?
45:31Jack aren't you proud of me? Oh
45:35Yes, you are
45:37Tell me you're proud gone
45:41Jack tell me you're proud
45:43I
45:50Anyway father's a very busy man
45:55If he's an idiot I talk and talk and give nothing back maybe if it wasn't all about you
46:04Well, I don't know anyone else
46:07Give him some food. There's a good chap. I've really got to go. I'm a very busy man doing what?
46:14French lessons
46:33He's the very model of me every home should have one
46:36He's got little cuffs and everything look at his lips
46:39He's a perfect little doll actually most women prefer big Casanova. That's true. He puts the cheval in Chevalier
46:48Now Jack, I don't think you've met everyone. This is count Eduardo Toretta. He's one of yours. He's from Treviso
46:54Madame de Gershi. Oh, and this is my mother's albion. Oh
46:59I say this looks like fun. What's going on?
47:02It's an execution a private showing just for us an exclusive who's the prisoner that's Damien
47:07Do you must have heard of Damien's he's become even more famous than you how bad
47:12You tried to assassinate the king
47:14Everyone's a critic. So what happens they're going to peel off his skin with pincers
47:18They keep him conscious so he's fully awake when they chop his torso into four and then he's burned
47:23gosh
47:25You think that it meant something faster a bit more excuse me sir perhaps. I should take Jack inside
47:30Oh, but he can't miss this
47:32Shame on you Rocco. You're always saying I don't do anything for him
47:35It's beginning
48:00You
48:18Dead
48:21All of them dead
48:25Executed
48:28Every single person I knew in that city is dead slaughtered by the revolution
48:38And I was almost one of them I
48:47Sometimes think
48:50Perhaps the people of France
48:53First began to revolt when the lottery changed their lives peasants could equal their masters
48:59If I hadn't invented that game, so he calls the French Revolution. It's a hypothesis
49:08I'm only suggesting did you really invent the lottery I?
49:13Haven't got over the fact that you made up your own title my title would have had me
49:17Decapitated if I'd stayed in Paris
49:20Long before the bloodshed I devised my own downfall
49:34I'll see yours and
49:37Raise you ten thousand
49:40I'll see yours and raise you a hundred thousand
49:44I
49:48Then declare
50:08Come on hurry up pack your stuff. We're gonna get out of here. This is private property. Of course it is this your house
50:14ah
50:17You lost it gambling no no no not the coach to the coast that's not mine anymore hurry up the baiters are coming
50:28You gambled away millions better hurry up. I can't all the way my teeth your teeth a nice head
50:36You lost your entire fortune
50:44Rocco
50:46Absolutely nothing
50:47Isn't it brilliant? Yeah? I think it is
50:50We're pioneers will start again to the horizon and beyond
50:55Whoa
50:58I've got nothing to go. Oh, yes
51:03Come on play time I
51:06I
51:08Reinvented myself before and I could do it again, so we set out for new territory
51:15England in the reign of King George the second
51:19This blessed plot this sceptre dial this England
51:24What do we think bloody freezing?
51:28Jack anything
51:32Anything
51:36Then pay attention both of you English lesson the currency is different here. They spend guineas
51:42Scratching in public is forbidden. That's for you Rocco, but not that look over there observe
51:47That's disgusting. That's England. I don't piss in doorways like we do they're right out in the open
51:53These English are crazy and the food tastes different. I'm told the milk is terrible
51:57Oh, and a lot of the men are homosexual that might something to do with the milk
52:02I'm not now then I've got just enough to pay for a carriage to London. That's a capital city Jack
52:08London and apparently the transports marvelous all the carriages are clean and punctual and fast and safe the envy of Europe
52:15Now let's have a think I've still got French coins
52:22We need to get them changed, I think you go to the customs house
52:26And then I've got contacts in London and mrs. Cornelis. She's the daughter of an actor
52:31I once knew
52:36She can give us lodging she has an address in Soho Square
52:42And failing that there's a there's a coffee house called the Prince of Orange we could apply for rooms
53:01Oh
53:31I
54:01You
54:31You
55:01You
55:13What was she doing in England, why was she there the family was in Venice, what was she doing?
55:19Did you ever find out why she was there? Yes?
55:24What the hell was she doing here
55:27One be a good news according to the ship's manifest. She wasn't traveling with her husband
55:31So what's she doing here without him?
55:33There's no good asking me. Let's get on a boat and follow. She's just across the channel wanna go and get her
55:37She wasn't in black
55:39So Grimani still alive. She's still married. Well, it's never stopped. Yeah, she's a mother now
55:45She'd honor her children and their home above anything
55:49Grimani just keeps on winning
55:52It's not as if he loves her I only married her to punish me
55:55Why
55:58England see you're sitting here trying to work out what a woman's thinking which means you'll sit here to the crack of doom
56:05Bollocks to it. Think of Jack for once. It's about time. You found him a proper Rome and I don't mean this dump
56:11I'm in Venice. Remember what we came here
56:13Go to the English court find a Venetian ambassador ask for a pardon and take that boy home
56:19What do you think?
56:22Well shift your ass then come on
56:33Never lose your heart Jack don't let them take it
56:51You
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