Arabian Nights (2000)

Directed by

Steve Barron

Genre

fantasy film

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 2 episodes

Rated

12

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 62 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A king who believes all women are unfaithful marries a new wife each night and has her killed at dawn. To stop this, his latest wife Scheherazade tells him a story every night but leaves it unfinished until the next day.

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What happens

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 and directed by Steve Barron. It was produced by Hallmark Entertainment and originally broadcast over two nights on 30 April and 1 May 2000 on BBC One in the United Kingdom and ABC in the United States. The series consists of five stories from One Thousand and One Nights, which are framed within a sixth, maintaining the traditional style of stories within stories that is synonymous with the Nights. The series cast includes John Leguizamo, Jason Scott Lee, Rufus Sewell, Mili Avital and Dougray Scott. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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