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As mil e uma noites

Arabian Nights
Les mille et une nuits

Portugal / France / Germany / Switzerland, May 2015
FILM, Fiction, 380 min.

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directed by
Miguel Gomes
Written by
Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo, Telmo Churro
Status
In distribution
Website
www.as1001noites.com/en

In Portugal, a country in crisis, a film director proposes to build fictional stories from the miserable reality he's 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 she 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…”

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World Premiere
May 2015
Original Version
Portuguese (french/english subtitles),  colour, DCP, 380 min.
ISAN
0000-0003-FA88-0000-M-0000-0000-8
Production
O Som e a Fúria, Shellac Films Distribution, Komplizen Film GmbH, Box Productions sàrl, ARTE G.E.I.E., ZDF Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, RTP- Radio e televisão de Portugal, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, AGAT Films & Cie
Producer
Luis Urbano, Thomas Ordonneau, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Elena Tatti, Elodie Brunner, Thierry Spicher, Michel Merkt
directed by
Miguel Gomes
Written by
Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo, Telmo Churro
Cinemato­graphy
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
Editing
Telmo Churro
Re-Recording Mix
Miguel Martins
Location Sound Mix
Vasco Pimentel
Production Design
Bruno Duarte
Costumes
Silvia Grabowski

Cast

Crista Alfaiate
Dinarte Branco
Carloto Cotta
Adriano Luz
Rogério Samora
Maria Rueff
Cristina Carvalhal
Luisa Cruz
Américo Silva
Diogo Doria
Bruno Bravo
Tiago Fagulha
Teresa Madruga

World Sales / World Rights

World Sales
The Match Factory

Worldwide Distribution

Austria
Stadtkino - Filmverleih Distribution
Release date: 20.11.2015
Brazil
Tucumán Distribuidora de Filmes Distribution
Release date: 11.12.2015
France
Shellac Films Distribution
Release date: 24.06.2015
Germany
Real Fiction Filmverleih Distribution
Release date: 28.07.2016
Italy
Milano Film Network Distribution
Release date: 18.03.2016
Serbia
MCF Megacom Film Distribution
Release date: tba
Spain
Golem Distribucion Distribution
Release date: 03.06.2016
Switzerland
Outside The Box Sarl Distribution
Release date: 11.09.2015

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