The demands of the international audience hampered Fellini’s later films. Commercially oriented producers, in particular longtime associate Dino De Laurentiis, counseled a compromise with Hollywood. Though he wanted Mastroianni, Fellini was persuaded to cast American actor Donald Sutherland as Giacomo Casanova in Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976; Fellini’s Casanova). The film treats Casanova, and, by proxy, Sutherland, unsympathetically. Reviewing his life, the great lover sees mostly grotesquery and humiliation. Paradoxically, he finds greatest satisfaction with an ingeniously engineered and lifelike automaton, mimed remarkably by Adele Angela Lojodice—a partner that, incapable of love, demanded none. Historians regard Casanova as the ...(100 of 1632 words)