1971 IL DECAMERON 1080P for Gift 1-Disc All RegionPlay Seal Box Blu-ray

Plot Summary

Won the Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival. The film is based on Boccaccio's famous novel collection "The Decameron" from the Italian Renaissance period. Pasolini selected 8 (some say 10) stories that took place in southern Italy such as Naples for filming (the original work mainly focused on stories from the Florence region), most of which aimed to expose the hypocritical and ugly nature of the church, and vividly expressed the author's positive attitude towards human liberation. The original work "The Decameron" is one of the most important literary works of the Italian Renaissance period. It is set against the backdrop of the Black Death in the 14th century, and through 100 stories told by ten young people, boldly criticizes the various misdeeds of the Catholic Church at that time, expressing the desire of the common people to pursue freedom and break free from religious constraints. This work with a clear realistic style can be regarded as a masterpiece of European classical literature, and is praised by later generations as a "human song" on par with Dante's Divine Comedy. Pasolini, the director of the late rise of Italian neorealism films, continued his creative route of using ancient mythological themes to alert the world today in the 1960s. He adapted and filmed three classic films, "The Decameron," "The Canterbury Story," and "One Thousand and One Nights," in a relatively popular manner, collectively known as the "Trilogy of Life. Due to the high number of nudity scenes in these three films and the use of a more popular entertainment film route, some film scholars also refer to them as Pasolini's "erotic trilogy". Pasolini himself expressed his creative viewpoint on this matter: "What I am presenting to the audience is the entire world, a feudal world, in which desire plays an extremely profound and fanatical role in dominating everything... I want to push out this world and say: You can compare it, I want to show you that I want to tell you, I want to remind you