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Les 1001 Nuits is a French-Italian fantasy film loosely based on the ancient Arabic legend One Thousand and One Nights. It is directed by Philippe de Broca and stars Catherine Zeta-Jones as Sheherazade, who has married a king (Thierry Lhermitte), who desires to have many virgin wives, but only one at a time. As soon as the King has consummated ...
The oldest known text of the tale of Scheherazade is a ninth century (CE) Arabic manuscript from Cairo.Across the next five centuries, Scheherazade’s "witty, lively and dynamic" voice was taken up by storytellers across the cultivated urban centres of Baghdad, Damascus, Cairo, and al-Andalus, with influences from multiple traditions, including Greek, Coptic, North African, and Hebrew.
Illustration of One Thousand and One Nights by Sani ol molk, Iran, 1849–1856. Leitwortstil is "the purposeful repetition of words" in a given literary piece that "usually expresses a motif or theme important to the given story." This device occurs in the One Thousand and One Nights, which binds several tales in a story cycle. The storytellers ...
Notes on the influences and context of the Thousand and One Nights; The Book of the Thousand and One Nights by John Crocker (expurgated) Sir Burton's c.1885 translation, annotated for English study. The Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang at Project Gutenberg; 1001 Nights, Representative of eastern literature (in Persian) "The Thousand-And-Second ...
Pages in category "Films based on One Thousand and One Nights" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Shéhérazade or Scorching Sands is a 1963 adventure film directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit and starring Anna Karina as the title character.The cast also featured Gérard Barray, António Vilar and Giuliano Gemma [2] The film is loosely based on the One Thousand and One Nights.
Arabian Nights is a two-part 2000 miniseries, adapted by Peter Barnes from Sir Richard Francis Burton's translation of the medieval epic One Thousand and One Nights. Mili Avital and Dougray Scott star as Scheherazade and Shahryar respectively.
One of these challenges described above is the devaluation of marriage in modern society along with establishment of female presence in the political world. Echoes of these ideas of tradition are emphasized by the trope this film aims to mimic, One Thousand and One Nights in which Scheherazade must tell series of stories to win the trust of a ...