The Decameron (1971 film)

Il Decameron

Il Decameron film poster
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Produced by Alberto Grimaldi
Written by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starring Franco Citti
Ninetto Davoli
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Music by Ennio Morricone
Cinematography Tonino Delli Colli
Distributed by United Artists
Release date(s) West Germany 29 June 1971 (première at the Berlin Film Festival)
US 12 December 1971
Running time 112 minutes
Country Italy
Language Italian

The Decameron (Italian: Il Decameron) is a 1971 film by Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the novel Decamerone by Giovanni Boccaccio. It is the first movie of Pasolini's Trilogy of life, the others being The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights.

The tales contain abundant nudity, sex, slapstick and scatological humor. The film was entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize.[1]

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