Shéhérazade (film)
Shéhérazade is a 1963 adventure film directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit and starring Anna Karina as the title character. The cast also featured Gérard Barray, Antonio Vilar and Giuliano Gemma The film is loosely based on the One Thousand and One Nights. The film's sets and costumes were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch. Plot Baghdad in the year 809. The city is ruled by the Caliph, Haroun-al-Rashid, to whom the beautiful and spiritual Scheherazade has been promised. Ambassadors of Charlemagne arrive in Baghdad to ask the Caliph for free access to the Christian holy sites. Among these envoys from the west is the knight Renaud Villecroix, who falls in love with her. The grand vizier, enemy of the Caliph, ambushes a traveling party and takes Scheherazade prisoner, threatening to cut off her head. Renaud saves her and flees into the desert with her. Cast Anna Karina as Shéhérazade Gérard Barray as Renaud de Villecroix Antonio Vilar as Haroun-al-Raschid Giuliano Gemma as Didier Marilù Tolo as Shirin Fausto Tozzi as Barmak Gil Vidal - Thierry Jorge Mistral as Grand Vizir Zaccar Fernando Rey Joëlle LaTour as Anira Rafael Albaicín Karamoko Cisse María Calvi José Calvo Félix Fernández María Granada José