Erotic stories from 1001 nights

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Movie
German title Erotic stories from 1001 nights
Original title Il fiore delle mille e una notte
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1974
length 129 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
script Dacia Maraini
Pier Paolo Pasolini
production Alberto Grimaldi
music Ennio Morricone
camera Giuseppe Ruzzolini
cut Nino Baragli
Tatiana Casini Morigi
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Pasolini's maddened stories

Erotic Tales from 1001 Nights is a film by the Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini from 1974. In individual episodes he tells 15 stories from the oriental fairy tale collection Thousand and One Nights .

action

The central story of the film is that of the love of the young Nur-ed-Din for his slave girl Zumurrud, who has been kidnapped by robbers and whom he finds again after a long wandering as a male king in a palace. Fortunately, his dream of love is still coming true. The random walk corresponds to the box principle of the film with which the other stories are told: the poet and the young men who give each other love and knowledge; the African king and queen watching a young couple in love; Yuman, who is forced to kill an innocent man to overcome witchcraft and who becomes a monk from a guilty conscience; Aziz, who unknowingly lets his fiancée Aziza die of her suffering because he goes mad because of a mysterious and cruel girl; Shazaman, who was turned into a monkey by a demon and who, thanks to the sacrifice of a princess, is given back his human form.

background

The leitmotif of the film: All stories begin with a journey or happen to a traveler. The realization of the film was also a journey for the film crew: it was shot in the deserts of Eritrea and Yemen as well as in Nepal .

The film is the last of Pasolini's trilogy of life . The other two films in the trilogy are Decameron from 1970 and Pasolini's maddened stories from 1972.

Awards

The film competed for the Palme d'Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival . Pasolini was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for his directorial work.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for erotic stories from 1001 nights . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2004 (PDF; test number: 46 723 DVD).