Nights and Loves of Don Juan (Italian: Le calde notti di Don Giovanni, Spanish: Los amores de Don Juan) is a 1971 commedia sexy all'italiana directed by Alfonso Brescia.
Plot
Cast
- Robert Hoffmann as Don Giovanni Tenorio
- Barbara Bouchet as Esmeralda Vargas
- Edwige Fenech as Aisha
- Ira von Fürstenberg as Isabella Gonzales
- Annabella Incontrera as Sister Magdalena
- Lucretia Love as the Queen of Cyprus
- José Calvo as Sultan Selim
- Adriano Micantoni as Emir Omar
- Emma Baron as Mother Superior
- Cris Huerta as Chiki, the eunuch
- Franco Marletta as Don Pedro de Alcantara
- Pietro Torrisi as Ali, the strongman
- Franco Fantasia as Majid
Production
The film was co-produced by Italian company Luis Film and Spanish company Fénix Cooperativa Cinematográfica.[1] It was shot between Frascati and Rome, with locations including Villa Borghese, Villa Ada, and Villa Parisi.[1]
Release
The film was released in Italian cinemas by Florida Cinematografica on 10 March 1971.[1]
Reception
Piero Virgintino on La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno wrote: "glossily decked out, as much as visually sterile, the film is a sexy fotoromanzo [...] with a few hints of crude humor".[1] Stampa Sera's critic Achille Valdata complained about the film's use of the Don Juan character, noting "it's disappointing [...] that such a lively and compelling figure [...] has to be reduced to such a kind of soulless puppet, of little prestige and nobility, possessing an amatory vocation that does not transcend the limits of the ordinary."[2]
References
- ^ a b c d Giusti, Marco (2019). "Le calde notti di Don Giovanni". Dizionario Stracult della commedia sexy. Bloodbuster edizioni. pp. 142–3. ISBN 978-88-943385-3-9.
- ^ Valdata, Achille (3 April 1971). "La volete su un piatto?". Stampa Sera. No. 76. p. 9.
