A 155-minute version of ARABIAN NIGHTS premiered at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize. Thereafter, two sections were cut, bringing it to its release length of 130 minutes. Those sections are presented here, with a transcription of the dialogue provided by Archivio Pier Paolo Pasolini.
In 1974, ARABIAN NIGHTS director Pier Paolo Pasolini and Paolo Brunatto made this sixteen-minute documentary about the Italian cities of Orte and Sabaudia. The film focuses on the need to preserve the basic form of a city as a representation of its popular history.
