A thousand and one nights (TV series)

Television broadcast
Original title	Thousand and one Night
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Year (s)	1969-1970
Production company	ZDF
length	50 minutes
Episodes	5 ( list )
genre	adventure
Director	Karl-Heinz Bieber
script	Karl-Heinz Bieber
First broadcast	January 23, 1969 on ZDF

Arabian Nights is a television series of the ZDF , which aired from 1969 to 1970. The series tells adventures from an oriental world.

action

In the series Thousand and One Nights , the beautiful Scheherazade ( Vera Chekhova ) captivates the Sultan ( Siegfried Rauch ) with exciting adventure and love stories from an oriental world. The series was also known as the Arabian Nights - Oriental Picture Sheet . The episodes ran on Thursdays at 8.15 p.m., the last on Whit Monday in the afternoon.

background

The series was one of the most elaborate large-scale ZDF productions of the 1960s with 50 main actors, 18 ballet girls, numerous artists, 50 "real Arabs", 10 "harem guards" and 550 extras.

Actors and roles

actor role Salah Baraka Second Herald Eva Berthold Num Hanna Burgwitz Sasan Hans Jürgen Diedrich Abu Hasan Gernot Duda Akbar Hannelore Elsner Laila Sylvia Frank Fatima Erich Fritze Omar Michael Grimm Ibu Imo Heite Dandan Romuald Pekny Ibn Sidi

actor role Kurt Pratsch-Kaufmann vizier Osman Ragheb First Herald Willy Rasky Saduk Siegfried Rauch sultan Claus Ringer Aladdin Hans Schellbach sultan Ernst Schönle vizier Chesterina Sim Zecha jasmine Vera Chekhova Scheherezade Klaus W. Krause Yusuf Fritz Wepper Sadi

Episodes

episode	Charisma
1	23rd January 1969
2	March 20, 1969
3	May 15, 1969
4th	17th July 1969
5	18th September 1969
6th	May 15, 1970

Web links

• Thousand and One Nights in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• A thousand and one nights at Fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Reufsteck, Stefan Niggemeier: Das Fernsehlexikon. All over 7000 programs from Ally McBeal to the ZDF hit parade . Goldmann, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-442-30124-6 .