Les 1001 Nuits

• Catherine Zeta -Jones: Scheherazade
• Gérard Jugnot: Jimmy Genious
• Stéphane Freiss: Aladin
• Thierry Lhermitte: King
• Vittorio Gassman: Sindbad

Sheherazade - With 1001 HP adventure ( Alternative title: Scheherazade; Original Title: Les nuits 1001 ). 's A French-Italian fantasy-adventure comedy from 1990 directed by Philippe de Broca, who also wrote the screenplay with Jérôme Tonnerre.

Action

Scheherazade flees before the king, with whom she is married; it is accompanied by Aladin. Along the way she gets a lamp that inhabits the spirit of the living in the present astronomers Jimmy Genious, has displaced the God of punishment in the Middle East the past. The Spirit endows the refugees with modern technical equipment such as helicopters, airplanes and motorcycles.

Scheherazade and Aladdin meet Sinbad, who tells about his travels. In the end, the spirit is freed.

Background

The film was shot in Malta and Morocco. He came into the French cinema on April 11, 1990. Catherine Zeta -Jones made ​​her debut as an actress with her ​​starring role in this film.

Reviews

The filmdienst wrote that the film was a " wacky comedy with a few nice ideas, primarily engaged in Klamaukhaften " get stuck. He was " varied by the 'modern' idea that the mind, from the oil lamp ' a spleeniger Englishman is, the Arabs was ages ago " "has been transplanted to London" and blasphemy.