Arabian nights Il fiore delle mille e una notte
DVD - 2012
The tale follows the adventures of a slave girl as she rises to power over a great city. Around her revolve the stories of magic and lust, mystery and fantasy that derive from three cultures (Persia, Egypt and India) and range from the ninth century to the Renaissance.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Romance films
Action and adventure films
Feature films
Fantasy films
Comedy films
Film adaptations
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, NY] :
The Criterion Collection
[2012]
- Language
- Italian
English - Corporate Authors
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- Edition
- Two-DVD special edition
- Item Description
- Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1974.
Inspired by A thousand and one nights.
Special features: new high-definition digital restoration; introduction by director Pier Paolo Pasolini; new visual essay by film scholar Tony Rayns; deleted scenes, with transcriptions of the dialogue from the original script; trailers; new interviews with art director Dante Ferretti and composer Ennio Morricone; "Via Pasolini" (2005), a twenty-seven-minute documentary featuring archival footage of Pasolini discussing his views on language, film, and modern society; "Pasolini and the form of the city" (1974), a sixteen-minute documentary by Pasolini and Paolo Brunatto about the Italian cities Orte and Sabaudia. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Format
- DVD, widescreen (16:9, 1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono., NTSC.
- Audience
- Rating: NC-17.
- Production Credits
- Photography, Giuseppe Ruzzolini ; editors, Nino Baragli, Tatiana Casini Morigi ; music by Ennio Morricone.