IL FIORE DELLE MILLE E UNA NOTTE
ARABIAN NIGHTS
Pier Paolo Pasolini / France, Italy / 1974 / 125 min / Colour
Taken from the Eastern tales of The Thousand and One Nights, this is the third chapter of the so-called “Trilogy of life”, with a complex plot divided into chapters. The film, awarded the Special Jury Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, was shot largely in the mountains of Ethiopia, Yemen, Iran and Nepal.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Poet, novelist, director, and actor, Pier Paolo Pasolini is considered one of the most important artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Born in Bologna in 1922 and raised between Emilia and Friuli, he moved to Rome in the 1950s. He began in cinema collaborating with Federico Fellini on Le notti di Cabiria. His first film, Accattone, was followed by another twenty, until the time of his tragic death in 1975, after censorship, praise, criticism, and progressive worldwide fame.
Credits
Screenplay Pier Paolo Pasolini, Dacia MarainiCinematography Giuseppe RuzzoliniEditing Nino Baragli, Tatiana Casini MorigiMusic Ennio MorriconeMain cast Franco Merli, Ines Pellegrini, Ninetto Davoli, Tessa Bouché, Franco Citti, Abadit Ghidei Producer Alberto GrimaldiProduction company PEA / Les Productions Artistes Associés