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Arabian Nights (TV miniseries) is a american film of genre Drama directed by Steve Barron released in USA on 30 april 2000 with Mili Avital
Arabian Nights (TV miniseries) (2000)
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Add to a movie listArabian Nights is a two-part 2000 American/British miniseries, adapted by Peter Barnes (his last film) from Sir Richard Francis Burton's translation of the medieval epic One Thousand and One Nights. Mili Avital and Dougray Scott star as Scheherazade and Shahryar respectively. Produced by Dyson Lovell and directed by Steve Barron, the serial was made by Hallmark Entertainment and originally broadcast over two nights on 30 April and 1 May 2000 on BBC One in the United Kingdom and ABC in the United States.
The series consists of five stories from One Thousand and One Nights, which are framed within a sixth, maintaining the traditional style of stories within stories that is synonymous with the Nights. The series cast includes Alan Bates, Rufus Sewell, Andy Serkis, James Frain, John Leguizamo (in a dual role), Jason Scott Lee, Vanessa-Mae, Alexei Sayle, Jim Carter, James Callis, and Oded Fehr.
^ "Rufus roughs it in Arabia". BBC News. 28 April 2000. Retrieved 19 November 2011.
^ Winslow, Harriet (2000-04-20). "Good Night Stories From Arabia; Scheherazade Postpones Death One Tale at a Time". The Washington Post. Retrieved 19 November 2011.
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The series starts in Baghdad at an undetermined time (since the story teller seems to live during the 8th century, but the stories that are told take place during the era of muskets, Englishmen, and queue-era Chinese hairstyles, which means they take place in the 17th century at the earliest). The Sultan Shahryar (Dougray Scott) has gone mad after accidentally killing his treacherous wife during a failed coup d'état, which she had planned with Shahryar's brother Schahzenan (James Frain). In his madness, Shahryar believes that all women now want to kill him, but the law states that the Sultan must be married again or the throne will be passed to his brother. Shahryar therefore orders Grand Vizier Ja'Far (Jim Carter) to bring him one of his concubines from the harem to marry and then have executed the next day.Actors
Mili Avital
(Scheherezade)
Dougray Scott
(Sultan Shahryar)
Jason Scott Lee
(Aladdin)
Alan Bates
(Storyteller)
James Frain
(Schahzenan / Harun al-Rashid)
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