“Flower of a Thousand and One Nights” ( Italian: Il Fiore Delle Mille E Una Notte ) is a 1974 film by Pierre Paolo Pasolini based on fairy tales from Arabic and Persian literature . The third part of the so-called Trilogy of Life, which also includes The Decameron (1971) and The Canterbury Tales (1972).
| Flower of a Thousand and One Nights | |
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| Il Fiore Delle Mille E Una Notte | |
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| Genre | drama , fairy tale , adventure , erotic , comedy |
| Producer | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Producer | Alberto Grimaldi |
| Author script | Pier Paolo Pasolini Cottage Maraini |
| In the main cast | Ninetto Davoli Franco Chitti Tessa Boucher |
| Operator | Giuseppe Ruzzolini |
| Composer | Ennio Morricone |
| Duration | 129 minutes |
| A country |  Italy  France |
| Language | |
| Year | 1974 |
| IMDb | ID 0071502 |
Arabian tale of love, meanness, treachery and evil. The story revolves around the guy and his beloved slave Zumurrud; the story of a bride and groom who goes to another; about princesses, magicians and sorceresses and about all the beauty of the enchanting East.
Cast
- Ninetto Davoli - Aziz
- Tessa Boucher - Aziza
- Franco Chitti - Demon
- Franco Merley - Nour Ed-Din
- Ines Pelegrini - Zumurrud
- Margaret Clementini
- Francisee noel
- Ali Abdul
- Christian Aligny
Rewards
The film was awarded the Grand Prix of the Cannes Film Festival in 1974 .
Links
- “One Thousand and One Nights Flower” on the Internet Movie Database
- One Thousand Nights Flower on allmovie