Arabian Nights

Original title: Il fiore delle mille e una notte

1974
NC-17
2h 10m

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6.7/10

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In ancient Arabia, a beautiful slave girl chooses a youth to be her new master, then she is kidnapped and they must search for each other. Stories are told within stories: love, travel and t... Read allIn ancient Arabia, a beautiful slave girl chooses a youth to be her new master, then she is kidnapped and they must search for each other. Stories are told within stories: love, travel and the whims of destiny.In ancient Arabia, a beautiful slave girl chooses a youth to be her new master, then she is kidnapped and they must search for each other. Stories are told within stories: love, travel and the whims of destiny.

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

9.3K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

4,686

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations

Trivia
This film is the final entry in director Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life," following The Decameron (1971) and The Canterbury Tales (1972).

Goofs
When the chimpanzee is writing, it's clearly visible that it's not actually the chimp writing but an actor wearing a glove made to look like the chimp's hand.

Crazy credits
"Truth lies not in one dream, but in many." - Arabian Nights

Alternate versions
The 1990 Water Bearer Films video release (WBF 8001) is marked "Original Uncut Version" with a runtime of 133 min. It is rated X.

Connections
Edited into Porn to Be Free (2016)

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Featured review

7/10

The sexual encounters in the film are strongly uninhibited, but not graphic or explicit...

This film version keeps much of the eroticism in Sir Richard Burton's original translation, which previous movie treatments saw fit to water down Great care was taken in the details: it was shot on location (Africa and the Middle East) and a dark skinned girl was cast as the princess The acting is extremely good, and the stories connect in and out in intriguing fashion...

The film selects some of the more popular of the Arabian Nights stories, but intertwines them in strange ways Like the original, many stories lead into other stories and again into others

One of the most erotic sequences is when two supernatural beings decide to play a trick on a virginal girl and boy The beings make each young person seduce the other while he or she is asleep In another scene, one of the heroes finds himself in a pool with a group of very pretty, very nude Arabian women, who tease and tickle him into an intense joy