An Archive "feature" could focus on the film's complex , which mimics the "story within a story" (Borgesian) style of the original 1001 Nights .
The film follows Nur-ed-Din (Franco Merli), a young man who falls in love with a slave girl, Zumurrud (Ines Pellegrini), who selects him as her master. After a series of misfortunes causes them to be separated, the film follows their separate journeys, weaving in various other travelers' tales. arabian nights 1974 internet archive