<Tr> <Th> Language </Th> <Td> Italian </Td> </Tr> <P> 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". </P> <P> The film is an adaptation of the ancient Arabic anthology The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, better known as The Arabian Nights . It is the last of Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life", which began with The Decameron and continued with The Canterbury Tales . The lead was played by young Franco Merli who was discovered for this film by Pasolini . </P> <P> The film contains abundant nudity, sex and slapstick humor . It preserves the eroticism and the story within a story structure of Arabian Nights and has been called "perhaps the best and certainly the most intelligent" of Arabian Nights film adaptations . </P>

1974 film the flower of the thousand and one nights
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