Il Medioevo erotico-boccaccesco

DECAMERON NIGHTS

1924, regia di Herbert Wilcox

Scheda: Nazione: GB-Germania - Produzione: Graham-Wilcox Productions Ltd. (London), Universum-Film AG (UFA), Berlin - Distribuzione: Universum Film A.G. - Soggetto: tratto dal Decameron - Sceneggiatura: Noel Rhys, Herbert Wilcox - Fotografia: Theodor Sparkuhl - Musiche di accompagnamento: Noel Rhys, Herbert Wilcox - Formato: B.N., muto.

Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Randle Ayrton, Xenia Desni, Ivy Duke, Bernhard Goetzke, Georg John, Werner Krauss, Hanna Ralph, Albert Steinrück, Samson Thomas.

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - allmovie.com - en.wikipedia.org - ovguide.com - entertainment.msn.com - answers.com - movies.toptenreviews.com - rottentomatoes.com: «During the 1920s, it was a common occurrence for British filmmakers to lense their productions in Germany, and vice versa. Thus it was that Herbert Wilcox travelled to Deutschland to film his lavish Decameron Nights. The film was based on a play by McLoughlin and Lawrence, which in turn was adapted from the spicy tales of Giovanni Boccaccio. Hollywood's Lionel Barrymore plays a sultan whose son falls hopelessly in love with a Moslem princess. Also in the cast is Werner Krauss, of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari fame. Decameron Nights was more or less remade in 1953, with Louis Jourdan and Joan Fontaine in the leads» (Hal Erickson).

Conosciuto anche con il titolo Dekameron-Nächte.

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