In this six-part series, Dennis Potter tries to locate a modern relevance in Giovanni Jacopo Casanova's sex and religion topics. Casanova "cared about religious and sexual freedom, and we must too." Casanova was imprisoned in Venice in 1755, and Potter used that as a primary motif, intercutting Casanova's love escapades with his solitary confinement in a half-darkened cell.
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In this six-part series, Dennis Potter tries to locate a modern relevance in Giovanni Jacopo Casanova's sex and religion topics. Casanova "cared about religious and sexual freedom, and we must too." Casanova was imprisoned in Venice in 1755, and Potter used that as a primary motif, intercutting Casanova's love escapades with his solitary confinement in a half-darkened cell.
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