Producer Dino De Laurentiis saw Robert Redford in the role of Casanova but Fellini refused to cast him [REF].
Fellini had to re-shoot parts of this movie, including the elaborate Venice carnival scene, when approximately seventy reels of film-including the first three weeks of shooting-were stolen at the Technicolor labs of Tiburtino, Rome, on August 27, 1975 [REF].