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The Decameron [videorecording]

2016
DVDs and BluRay
Pier Paolo Pasolini writes, directs and stars in this Italian comedy drama based on Giovanni Boccaccio's novel. Made up of nine individual stories, the film includes tales of betrayed husbands, young lovers, immoral nuns, deceptive doctors and unlikely saints as well as two friends who wish to find out about the afterlife. Meanwhile, a painter's pupil named Allievo di Giotto (Pasolini) arrives in Naples to paint a mural.
Main title:
The Decameron [videorecording] / director, Pier Paolo Pasolini; producer, Alberto Grimaldi; writer, Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Imprint:
BFI, 2016.
Collation:
1 videodisc (107 min.) : col.
Notes:
Region 2, 1 disc(s), Disc format DVD 9 dual layer, Interactive menus, Ratio (1:1.85 (17:9) Theatrical widescreen), Other Ratio 1:1.78 (16:9) widescreen, Enhanced for WideScreen TV, Languages (Italian, English), Sound (Dolby Mono), Subtitles (English), Trailers, Other documentaries ('Notes for an African Oreteia' (1970))Made in 1971.Based on the novel by Giovanni Boccaccio.Credits: music, Pier Paolo Pasolini; music, Ennio Morricone; cinematographer, Tonino Delli Colli.DVDN.
Performers:
Cast: Cast: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Angela Luce, Patrizia Capparelli, Jovan Jovanovic, Silvana Mangano, Vincenzo Ferrigno, Elizabetta Davoli, Vincenzo Amato, Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Audience:
BBFC code: 18.
System details:
DVD.
Dewey class:
791.437
Language:
ItalianEnglish
BRN:
297410
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