Arabian Nights (1974)
Arabian Nights (1974)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Ninetto Davoli
Aziz
Franco Citti
The Demon
Franco Merli
Nur Ed Din
Tessa Bouché
Aziza
Ines Pellegrini
Zumurrud
Margareth Clémenti
Aziz's Mother
Luigina Rocchi
Budur
Alberto Argentino
Prince Shahzmah
Francesco Paolo Governale
Prince Tagi
Salvatore Sapienza
Prince Yunan
Zeudi Biasolo
Zeudi
Barbara Grandi
Ragazza Trattenuta dal Demone
Elisabetta Genovese
Munis
Gioacchino Castellini
Giawàn
Abadit Ghidei
Queen Dunya
Salvatore Verdetti
Barsum
Ali Abdulla
(uncredited)
Fessazion Gherentiel
Berhane (uncredited)
Rino Hammaded
Hayat (uncredited)
Giana Idris
Giana (uncredited)
Jannette You
Donna Grassa (uncredited)
Mohamed Ali Zedi
(uncredited)
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Writer / Director
Alberto Grimaldi
Producer
Ennio Morricone
Original Music Composer
Giuseppe Ruzzolini
Director of Photography
Nino Baragli
Editor
Tatiana Casini Morigi
Editor
Fausto Ancillai
Sound Mixer
Dante Ferretti
Production Design
Danilo Donati
Costume Design
Massimo Anzellotti
Sound Effects Editor
Dacia Maraini
Writer
Iole Cecchini
Hairstylist
Massimo Giustini
Makeup Artist
Giuseppe Banchelli
Production Supervisor
Carla Crovato
Production Secretary
Mario Di Biase
Production Manager
Alessandro Mattei
Production Supervisor
Umberto Angelucci
Assistant Director
Peter Shepherd
Assistant Director
Luciano Welisch
Sound
Marcello Mastrogirolamo
Assistant Camera
Angelo Pennoni
Still Photographer
Alessandro Ruzzolini
Camera Operator
Claudio Sabatini
Assistant Camera
Ugo De Rossi
Assistant Editor
Alfredo Menchini
Assistant Editor
Enzo Ocone
Supervising Editor
Beatrice Banfi
Continuity
Maurizio Forti
Administration
Daniele Tiberi
Administration
Jeanne Gauffin Mathieu
Francelise Noel
Franca Sciutto
Luigi Antonio Guerra
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 20, 1974
Original NameIl fiore delle Mille e una notte
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 11m
Filming LocationsEthiopia
Genres
Wiki.
Arabian Nights is a 1974 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Its original Italian title is Il fiore delle mille e una notte, which means The Flower of the One Thousand and One Nights.
The film is an adaptation of the ancient Arabic anthology One Thousand and One Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights. It is the last of Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life", which began with The Decameron and continued with The Canterbury Tales. The lead was played by young Franco Merli who was discovered for this film by Pasolini. The film is an adaptation of several stories within the original collection but they are presented out of order and without the Scheherazade, Dunyazad and King Shahriyar frame story.
The film contains abundant nudity, sex and slapstick humor. It preserves the eroticism and the story within a story structure of Arabian Nights and has been called "perhaps the best and certainly the most intelligent" of Arabian Nights film adaptations.With this film, Pasolini intended to make a film of Arabian Nights based on his 'memory of it as a boy'. In preparation for the film, Pasolini re-read the 1001 Nights with a more critical lens and chose only the stories that he felt were the most 'beautiful'.