Venice, during the carnival of March 1735. The young lawyer
Goldoni is about to mount his first stage play, but the enterprise is
threatened when his sponsors fall foul of a mysterious assassin.
Hounded by bad luck and suspected by the Grand Inquisitor, Goldoni
falls in love with the beautiful Nicoletta...
Script: Georges Garone (novel),
Matthew Pollack,
Etienne Périer,
Luciano Vincenzoni
Cinematographer: Marcello Gatti
Cast: Vincent Spano (Carlo Goldoni),
Wojciech Pszoniak (Antonio Vivaldi),
Isabel Russinova (Nicoletta),
Massimo Dapporto (Tiepolo),
Victor Lanoux (Le grand inquisiteur),
Andréa Ferréol (Princesse Hortense),
Yorgo Voyagis (Torelli),
Catherine Lachens (La Giro),
Valérie Mairesse (Célia),
Galeazzo Benti (Silvio Conio),
Stéphane Bierry (Secrétaire de l'inquisiteur),
Alain Doutey (Chiari),
Etienne Périer (Pisani),
Alessandro Bressanello (Attore commedia Goldoni)
Country: Italy / France
Language: French
Support: Color
Runtime: 120 min
Aka:Venetian Red
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