Shéhérazade (film)

Shéhérazade is a 1963 French adventure film directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit and starring Anna Karina as the title character.[1] The film is loosely based on the One Thousand and One Nights.

Shéhérazade
Film poster
Directed byPierre Gaspard-Huit
Produced byMichel Safra
Serge Silberman
Written byPierre Gaspard-Huit
José Gutiérrez Maesso
Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon
StarringAnna Karina
CinematographyAndré Domage
Edited byLouisette Hautecoeur
Release date
  • 10 May 1963 (1963-05-10)
Running time
124 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget3.4 million tickets

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

Box office

It was the 46th top-grossing film of 1963 in France, where it sold 1,375,848 tickets at the box office.[2] In Poland, it sold more than 2 million tickets, making it one of the thirteen highest-grossing foreign films in Poland as of 1968.[3] This adds up to more than 3,375,848 tickets sold in Europe.

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References
  1. Wakin, Daniel J. "Shéhérazade". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 26 October 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
  2. "Shéhérazade (1963)". JP's Box-Office (in French). Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  3. Ford, Charles; Hammond, Robert (2015). Polish Film: A Twentieth Century History. McFarland & Company. p. 107. ISBN 978-1-4766-0803-7.
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