Arabian Nights (1974 film)

Arabian Nights is a 1974 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Its original Italian title is Il fiore delle mille e una notte , which means The Flower of the One Thousand and One Nights.

The main story concerns an innocent young man, NureDin Franco Merli, who comes to fall in love with a slave girl, Zumurrud Ines Pellegrini, who selected him as her master. After a foolish error of his causes her to be abducted, he travels in search of her. Meanwhile, Zumurrud manages to escape and, disguised as a man, comes to a faraway kingdom where she becomes king. Various other travellers who recount their own tragic and romantic experiences include stories of a young man who becomes enraptured by a mysterious woman on his wedding day, and a man who is determined to free a woman from a demon Franco Citti. Interwoven are NureDins continuous search for Zumurrud and his mostly erotic adventures. In the end he arrives at the faraway kingdom and is finally reunited with Zumurrud. The tales contain abundant nudity, sex and slapstick humor.The film was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix Spcial Prize. ........

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