Where it was filmed 'Casanova '70'

A successful ladies’ man, Major Colombetti (Marcello Mastroianni) can only experience pleasure in situations where his life is in danger. He is in Paris when Noelle, his principal girlfriend, plants a seed of doubt about his virility. He consults (Enrico Maria Salerno) a psychoanalyst and tells him some of his stories: bout how he bored a woman by playing music all night on a boat or figured out how to stilt walk in order to look at the cobbler’s wife in via Garibaldi in the historical centre of Locorotondo (BA).

When Andrea meets Gigliola (Virna Lisi), a young Apulian aristocrat staying in Cervinia (AO) for a rest cure prescribed by the therapist, everything seems to be headed in the right direction. She is his perfect woman and Andrea proposes during a party at Santa Rosamunda delle Nevi, actually the Chapel of Madonna de La Salette in the hamlet of Septumian in Torgnon (AO). Their idyll, however, does not last long as Andrea is sent away to Sicily after seducing his general’s wife.

Here he runs into Thelma (Marisa Mell) as she walks along the via Panoramica di Ostuni (Apulia), he picks her up and takes her home. The manor house where her possessive husband awaits is Marchione Castle in Conversano (BA). A moment of mortal danger sets him on the straight and narrow, the consequence of seducing the daughter of a restaurant owner close to Augusta (SR), near Gigliola’s home, Masseria Caracciolo in Turi (BA), declaredly Apulia this time. There is another brief idyll when Andrea and Gigliola visit the Caves of Castellana (BA). In Alberobello (BA), the Major is fascinated by Santina’s “pedicure” (Moira Orfei), she works in the Trullo Sovrano in piazza Sacramento.

The setting moves a long way up north to the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza where the modern-day Casanova meets Thelma again and later turns up at the Palladian villa where she lives with her husband, Villa Foscari in Malcontenta di Mira (VE). The situation gets out of hand and the Major is put on trial: the court scenes were shot in the Auditorium Cavour in Rome. In the final part of the film, the happily-married Andrea has apparently not lost his taste for risk: the scene set in Milan was actually shot in Rome in a residential building (that does not exist) that appears to look onto via Bissolati.