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ARABIAN NIGHTS - THE DESOLATE ONE (VOLUME 2)

AS MIL E UMA NOITES - O DESOLADO

By Miguel GOMES

BOX PRODUCTIONS - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2015

Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2015

La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs

Palm Springs International Film Festival 2016

Solothurner Filmtage 2016

International Film Festival Rotterdam 2016

Goteborg IFF 2016

Portland International Film Festival 2016

Festival internacional de Cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2016

Dublin International Film Festival 2016

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- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy, Black comedy
- Countries
- PORTUGAL, FRANCE, GERMANY, SWITZERLAND
- Languages
- PORTUGUESE
- Duration
- 120 mn
- Director(s)
- Miguel GOMES
- Writer(s)
- Miguel GOMES, Mariana RICARDO, Telmo CHURRO
- Cast
- Crista ALFAIATE, Dinarte BRANCO, Carloto COTTA
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-FC07-0000-E-0000-0000-W
- EIDR
- 10.5240/490C-92AF-5158-E07A-D43C-3
- Producer(s)
- Luis Urbano DE SOUSA (O SOM E A FURIA), Thomas ORDONNEAU (SHELLAC), Janine JACKOWSKI (KOMPLIZEN FILM GMBH), Elena TATTI (BOX PRODUCTIONS)
- Synopsis
- In Portugal - one European country in crisis - a film director proposes to build fictional stories from the miserable reality he is immersed in. However, failing to find meaning in his work, he cowardly runs away and leaves the beautiful Scheherazade to stand in his shoes. She will require enthusiasm and courage so as not to bore the King with sad stories of this country! As nights go past, restlessness leads to desolation and in turn to enchantment. Therefore Scheherazade organises the stories she tells the King in three volumes. She begins like this: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that in a sad country among all countries...”.
  
  Volume 2, The Desolate One
  In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a distressed Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence on a night when all three moons are aligned. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad! The residents of a tower block in the suburbs will save parrots and piss inside lifts while surrounded by dead people and ghosts; including in fact a dog that…”. And seeing the morning break, Scheherazade fell silent.
  
  - “Damned tales! If things continue this way my daughter will surely end up with her throat slit!” – the Grand-Vizier, Scheherazade’s father, thinks in his palace in Bagdad.

ARABIAN NIGHTS - THE DESOLATE ONE (VOLUME 2)

AS MIL E UMA NOITES - O DESOLADO

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