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  1. Decameron Nights (also known as Tres Historias De Amor) is a 1953 British-American anthology Technicolor film directed by Hugo Fregonese and starring Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan. [2]

  2. Decameron Nights (1953) was based on three of the tales and starred Louis Jourdan as Boccaccio. Archanděl Gabriel a paní Husa (1965, transl. Archangel Gabriel and Madam Goose ) is a puppet film by Jiří Trnka based on story IV, 2.

  3. Decameron Nights: Directed by Hugo Fregonese. With Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Godfrey Tearle, Joan Collins. The main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio's own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love.

  4. Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio. The Essay. Terry Jones introduces a series of retellings of stories from Boccaccio's The Decameron, adapted by Robin Brooks.

  5. Synopsis. During the mid-fourteenth century, Giovanni Boccaccio, the easy-going author of ribald tales, rides into Florence as it is being overrun by the Duke of Lorenzo's army.

  6. In the 14th century, famous writer Giovanni Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) returns to Florence, Italy, to woo beautiful noblewoman Fiametta (Joan Fontaine). Although Fiametta rejects Giovanni's ...

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  7. In the early 1970s, the great Italian poet, philosopher, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini brought to the screen a trio of masterpieces of medieval 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 ...

  8. Decameron Nights (1953 #HugoFregonese) Episodic adventure as a storyteller (Louis Jourdan) shares tales of love, deception & humour in medieval Italy with Fiammetta (#JoanFontaine). Joan & Louis in the framing device & the vignettes.

  9. Based on the medieval romance collection by Boccaccio, Louis Jourdan (the author) narrates three of Boccaccio’s tales including; “Paganino the pirate”, “Wager for virture” and “The Doctor’s daughter”. Starring Joan Fontaine, Binnie Barnes and Joan Collins.

  10. Decameron Nights. DRAMA. In the 14th century, famous writer Giovanni Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) returns to Florence, Italy, to woo beautiful noblewoman Fiametta (Joan Fontaine). Although Fiametta rejects Giovanni's attentions, he wins an audience by promising to tell her an original story.