Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life (Criterion Collection) (DVD)

In the early 1970s, the great Italian poet, philosopher, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (SALR, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM) brought to the screen a trio of masterpieces of premodern world literature - Giovanni Boccaccio's THE DECAMERON, Geoffrey Chaucer's THE CANTERBURY TALES, and THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS (often known as THE ARABIAN NIGHTS) - and in doing so created his most uninhibited and extravagant work, which he titled his TRILOGY OF LIFE.

Starring: Hugh Griffith, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Merli, Laura Betti, Ines Pellegrini, Angela Luce, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Francesco Paolo Governale, Silvana Mangano, Josephine Chaplin, John Francis Lane, Patrizia Capparelli, Tessa Bouche, Alberto Argentino, Jovan Jovanovic, Alan Webb, Gianni Rizzo, Salvatore Sapenza, J P Van Dyne, Margareth Clementi, Vernon Dobtcheff, Luigina Rocchi, Zeudi Biasiolo, Adrian Strett, Barbara Grandi, Derek Deadman, Nicholas Smith, Elisabetta Vito Genovese, Gioacchino Castellina, George Datch, Dan Thomas, Castellina Ghidel, Christian Alegny, Michael Balfour, Jenny Runacre, Salvatore Verdetti, Jocelyne Muchenback, Peter Cain, Luici Antonio Guerra, Jeanne Gauffin Matthieu, Francelise Noel, Franca Sciutto, Fessazion Gherantiel, Gian Idris, Ali Abdullah