Il fiore delle mille e una notte
- "Arabian Nights (film)" and "Arabian Nights (movie)" redirect here. For other uses, see Arabian Nights (disambiguation).
Il fiore delle Mille e una notte (The Flower of the One Thousand and One Nights) is a 1974 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and is based on The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. The lead was played by young Sicilian Franco Merli who had been discovered for this film by Pasolini. It is the third and last movie of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life series which began with The Decameron and then The Canterbury Tales.
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Film details
Il fiore delle mille e una notte (Italy / France 1974)
English titles: Arabian Nights / A Thousand and One Nights / Flower of the Arabian Nights
Runtime: Argentina:135 min / Australia:131 min / France:155 min / Italy:129 min / USA:131 min
Crew
Producer: Alberto Grimaldi
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Written by: Dacia Maraini, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Original Music: Ennio Morricone
Cinematographer: Giuseppe Ruzzolini
Cast
Franco Merli, Ines Pellegrini, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Tessa Bouche, Margaret Clementi, Francelise Noel, Ali Abdulla, Christian Aligny, Jeanne Gauffin Mathieu, Francesco Paolo Governale, Salvatore Sapienza, Zeudi Biasolo, Barbara Grandi, Elisabetta Genovese, Gioacchino Castellini, Abadit Ghidei, Mohamed Ali Zedi, Salvatore Verdetti, Jocelyne Munchenbach, Luigina Rocchi, Alberto Argentino, Luigi Antonio Guerra, Franca Sciutto
Synopsis
The main story concerns an innocent young man, Nur-e-Din (Franco Merli), who comes to fall in love with a slave girl, Zumurrud (Ines Pellegrini), who selected him as her master. After a foolish error of his causes her to be abducted, he travels in search of her. Meanwhile Zumurrud manages to escape and, disguised as a man, comes to a far-away kingdom where she becomes king. Various other travelers who recount their own tragic and romantic experiences include stories of a young man who becomes enraptured by a mysterious woman on his wedding day, and a man who is determined to free a woman from a demon (Franco Citti). Interwoven are Nur-e-Din's continuous search for Zumurrud and his - mostly erotic - adventures. In the end he arrives at the far-away kingdom and is finally reunited with Zumurrud.
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| Movies by Pier Paolo Pasolini |
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Accattone | Mamma Roma | La ricotta (RoGoPaG) |The Gospel According to St. Matthew | Love Meetings | The Hawks and the Sparrows | The Witches | Oedipus Rex | Theorem | Love and Anger | Pigpen | Medea | The Decameron | The Canterbury Tales | Il fiore delle mille e una notte | Salò |
Categories
1974 films | The Book of One Thousand and One Nights | Films directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini | Anthology films