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Shhrazade (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Shhrazade' is a 1963 French adventure film directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit and starring Anna Karina as the title character. The cast also featured Grard Barray, Antonio Vilar and Giuliano Gemma The film is loosely based on the 'One Thousand and One Nights'. The film's sets and costumes were designed by the art director Georges Wakhvitch.
Plot
Baghdad in the year 809. The city is ruled by the Caliph, Haroun-al-Rashid, to whom the beautiful and spiritual Scheherazade has been promised. Ambassadors of Charlemagne arrive in Baghdad to ask the Caliph for free access to the Christian holy sites. Among these envoys from the west is the knight Renaud Villecroix, who falls in love with her. The grand vizier, enemy of the Caliph, ambushes a traveling party and takes Scheherazade prisoner, threatening to cut off her head. Renaud saves her and flees into the desert with her.
Cast
* Anna Karina as Shhrazade
* Grard Barray as Renaud de Villecroix
* Antonio Vilar as Haroun-al-Raschid
* Giuliano Gemma as Didier
* Maril Tolo as Shirin
* Fausto Tozzi as Barmak
* Gil Vidal - Thierry
* Jorge Mistral as Grand Vizir Zaccar
* Fernando Rey
* Jolle LaTour as Anira
* Rafael Albaicn
* Karamoko Cisse
* Mara Calvi
* Jos Calvo
* Flix Fernndez
* Mara Granada
* Jos Manuel Martn (as J.M. Martn)
Box office
It was the 46th top-grossing film of 1963 in France, where it sold 1,375,848 tickets at the box office. In Poland, it sold more than tickets, making it one of the thirteen highest-grossing foreign films in Poland . This adds up to more than 3,375,848 tickets sold in Europe.
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