Shéhérazade (film)

Shéhérazade
Shéhérazade
	Film poster
Directed by	Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Written by	Pierre Gaspard-Huit; José Gutiérrez Maesso; Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon
Produced by	Michel Safra; Serge Silberman
Starring	Anna Karina
Cinematography	André Domage
Edited by	Louisette Hautecoeur
Release date	10 May 1963;
Running time	124 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	3.4 million tickets

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.

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 Shéhérazade
Gérard Barray as Renaud de Villecroix
Antonio Vilar as Haroun-al-Raschid
Giuliano Gemma as Didier
Marilù Tolo as Shirin
Fausto Tozzi as Barmak
Gil Vidal - Thierry
Jorge Mistral as Grand Vizir Zaccar
Fernando Rey
Joëlle LaTour as Anira
Rafael Albaicín
Karamoko Cisse
María Calvi
José Calvo
Félix Fernández
María Granada
José Manuel Martín (as J.M. Martín)

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.

References[]

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

External links[]

Shéhérazade at IMDb

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[nytimes-1] Wakin, Daniel J. (2012). "Shéhérazade". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 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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