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Il fiore delle mille e una notte /

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A selection of erotic stories from "The Thousand and One Nights". The film is framed by the story of a young man's quest to reconnect with his beloved slave girl. Full of lustrous sets and costumes and stunning location photography, Arabian Nights is a fierce and joyous exploration o...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Fiore delle mille e una notte (Motion picture)
Main Author: Morricone, Ennio (Composer)
Other Authors: Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 1922-1975 (Director, Screenwriter, essayist.), Grimaldi, Alberto (Producer), Maraini, Dacia (Screenwriter), Davoli, Ninetto (Actor), Citti, Franco (Actor), Pellegrini, Ines, 1954- (Actor), Bouché, Tessa (Actor), Merli, Franco, 1956- (Actor), Ruzzolini, Giuseppe, 1930- (Cinematographer)
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:Italian
Language Notes:Italian dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Published: [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2012]
Edition:Blu-ray special ed.
Series:Criterion collection ; 631.
Criterion collection ; 634.
Subjects:
Dancers > Drama.
Brothers > Drama.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Drama.
Brothers.
Dancers.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, Italian.
Erotic films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Drama.
Table of Contents:
  • Special features: Introduction by director Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • On 'Arabian Nights' [Visual essay by film scholar Tony Rayns]
  • Deleted scenes, with transcriptions of the dialogue from the original script
  • Trailers
  • Pasolini e a forma della cittá = Pasolini and the form of the city (16 min), [1974 documentary by Pasolini and Paolo Brunatto about the need to preserve the basic form of cities for historical purposes].