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Decameron Nights is a British film of genre Adventure directed by Hugo Fregonese with Joan Fontaine
Decameron Nights (1953)
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Add to a movie listDecameron Nights is a 1953 anthology Technicolor film based on three tales from The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, specifically the ninth and tenth tales of the second day and the ninth tale of the third. It stars Joan Fontaine and, as Boccaccio, Louis Jourdan.
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In the mid-fourteenth century, Boccaccio seeks his true love, the recently widowed Fiametta (Joan Fontaine), and finds that she has fled Florence, plague-ridden and being sacked by an invading army, for a villa in the countryside with several female companions. When he shows up on her doorstep, Fiametta does not want to invite him to stay, but her friends, bored and lacking male companionship, override her objections. To entertain the ladies (and further his courtship of Fiametta), Boccaccio tells stories of the pursuit of love.Actors
Joan Fontaine
(Fiametta / Bartolomea / Ginevra / Isabella)
Louis Jourdan
(Giovanni Boccaccio / Paganino / Guilio / Don Bertando)
Godfrey Tearle
(Ricciardo / Bernabo)
Joan Collins
(Pampinea / Maria)
Binnie Barnes
(Comtesse di Firenze / Nerina / Old Witch)
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