Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Three-part BBC television miniseries about the notorious 18th century lothario written by Russell T Davies & starring David Tennant & Peter O& Toole The aged Casanova (O& Toole) is living out his days as the custodian of a library in Bohemia when he meets young serving girl Edith (Rose Byrne) He begins to tell her about his infamous escapades as a young man (played by Tennant) when he scandalised Europe & was exiled from his native Venice for crimes against the government & church Wandering through Enlightenment Europe Casanova reinvents himself constantly as a poet philosopher spy black magician petty conman & of course lover eventually incurring the wrath of the Venetian ambassador to Britain Grimani (Rupert Penry-Jones) after he falls in love with his wife Henriette (Laura Fraser) Wounded in a duel with Grimani Casanova returns home but is unable to forget the one woman he truly loves