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7.4/10   368 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Lorenzo da Ponte (libretto)
Frantz Salieri (collaboration)
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Release Date:
16 March 1980 (West Germany) more
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Plot:
Screen adapatation of Mozart's greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conquest... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 3 wins & 2 nominations more
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Also Known As:
Mozart's Don Giovanni
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Runtime:
Spain:179 min | Italy:184 min | USA:184 min | France:185 min | West Germany:175 min
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4 out of 4 people found the following review useful.
Enjoyable, 22 November 2007
8/10
Author: aaron-497 from United States

I enjoyed it very much. I'm fairly new to the whole wide world of opera but this was very entertaining. But what do I really comment on? Mozart's work, or the movie adaptation of it? Mozart of course is incredible. I love the opening scene, the closing scene and pretty much everything in between. My biggest problem, and I assume that this is true with opera in general is that once I passed the point that I had reached in familiarity from listening to a recording of it, the music was lost to me. I paid more attention to the words and what was going on in the plot than the music.

As for the movie adaptation, aside from it being very strange to watch and listen to an opera written more than 200 years ago on my modern television, I found it enjoyable. Yes, the preceding comment is true that the expressions were exaggerated and more fit for a stage but I don't feel they were inappropriate either. As far as sets and costumes and quality, I have very little basis of comparison, as I have not seen it on stage, or any opera for that matter.

In short, I found it to be very good, though I'm probably one of the very few sixteen year olds who would agree with that.

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