Leo Bernardi is a successful and acclaimed Italian director. He’s approaching the end of his career but he cannot accept his slow decline. He has just finished shooting his last movie and he’s deeply sad. The movie is inspired by the novel about Casanova written by Arthur Schnitzler, a character so similar to the director, even more than he could imagine. Schnitzler’s Casanova is aged, glory days are over: he lost his charm and his attraction to women, he’s broke and no more eager to travel through Europe. After a long exile, he just wants to go back to Venice, his homeland. While traveling home Casanova meets a girl, Marcolina. She reawakens his desire, lost for years. So, he tries to seduce her but that leads him to a tragic understanding: he’s an old man now. It’s not by chance that Leo Bernardi decided to tell this story right now, in a pivotal moment of his life and career. The destiny of both Casanova and his director leads them to a final confrontation.

Η Επιστροφή του Καζανόβα, η νέα ταινία του οσκαρικού Gabriele Salvatores (La Grande Bellezza), μια γλαφυρή, μα και διασκεδαστικά αδυσώπητη περιήγηση στο χρόνο σε πολλαπλά επίπεδα και στα αιώνια δίπολα νεότητα - γήρας, παρελθόν - παρόν, με πρωταγωνιστές τους έξοχους Toni Servillo και Fabrizio Bentivoglio. Το παρελθόν, ωραιοποιημένο, ανέμελο, αλλά και με ξεθωριασμένα χρώματα, απέναντι σε ένα φωτεινό μεν, μαυρόασπρο και καταθλιπτικό δε, παρόν. Ανάμεσα τους κινηματογράφος, τέχνη, τεχνολογία, διαχρονικά ερωτήματα και φυσικά η πανταχού παρούσα αγάπη

Il film narra la storia di un affermato regista italiano che, restio ad accettare lo scorrere del tempo, decide di raccontare il Casanova nel suo ultimo film. Durante le riprese si accorgerà di essere molto simile al personaggio che mette in scena, anche più di quanto potesse immaginare.

Slavni beneški ljbumec se s težavo sooča z dejstvom, da ima več kot 60 let, časi slave so mimo, izgubil je svoj čar in privlačnost do žensk, brez denarja je in si ne želi več potovati po Evropi. Po dolgem izgnanstvu se le želi vrniti v Benetke, svojo domovino. Med potovanjem domov Casanova sreča dekle Marcolino, ki mu ponovno prebudi že izgubljeno strast. Zato jo skuša zapeljati, a to ga pripelje do tragičnega spoznanja: da je zdaj le star človek...