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Don Juan (Spanish: [doŋ ˈxwan]), also known as Don Giovanni , is a legendary, fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. The original version of the story of Don Juan appears in the 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest) by Tirso de Molina.
Frontispiece illustration of a bust of Lord Byron in the 1824 edition of Don Juan. (Benbow publisher) Byron was a prolific writer, for whom "the composition of his great poem, Don Juan, was coextensive with a major part of his poetical life"; he wrote the first canto while resident in Italy in 1818, and the 17th canto in early 1823. [3]
Exploits of a Young Don Juan (French: Les exploits d'un jeune Don Juan, Italian: L'iniziazione, also known as What Every Frenchwoman Wants) is a 1986 French-Italian erotic coming of age film written and directed by Gianfranco Mingozzi. It is loosely based on the novel Les Exploits d'un jeune Don Juan by Guillaume Apollinaire. [2] [3]
Don Juan is a 1998 French-language film written and directed by Jacques Weber, starring Weber himself, alongside Michel Boujenah, Penélope Cruz, and Emmanuelle Béart. The screenplay is based on the play Dom Juan by Molière .
Within an old dilapidated and seemingly automated theater, human-sized marionettes perform a production of the Don Juan legend without the aid of puppeteers or an audience. In the play, Don Juan's fiancée Maria is secretly seeing his brother Don Phillipe. Unbeknownst to the two lovers, Don Juan is watching them from one of the balconies.
Here the Jane Guy comes upon a mysterious island called Tsalal, inhabited by a tribe of black, apparently friendly natives led by a chief named Too-Wit. The color white is alien to the island's inhabitants and unnerves them, because nothing of that color exists there. Even the natives' teeth are black.
Don Juan is a 1950 Spanish romantic adventure film directed by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia and starring António Vilar, Annabella and María Rosa Salgado. It is based on the legend of Don Juan. [1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch. It was shot at the Estudios Ballesteros in Madrid.
Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre ("Don Juan or The Feast of Stone") is a five-act 1665 comedy by Molière based upon the Spanish legend of Don Juan Tenorio. [1] The aristocrat Dom Juan is a rake who seduces, marries, and abandons Elvira, discarded as just another romantic conquest. Later, he invites to dinner the statue of a man whom he recently ...