The Thousand and One Nights of Boccaccio in Canterbury(1973)
Boccaccio dreams of making a trip to hell and listening to the licentious tales of the damned: Story 1: Two couples, unknown to each one of them agree for swinging, but each meets one's own spouse. Story 2: A friar takes advantage, with deception, of a young bride obsessed with her insatiable husband. Story 3: A merchant is absent from home by entrusting his wife to her nephew and she initiates him to sexual experiences. Story 4: A husband has a homosexual relationship with one of his workers; the wife threatens the worker and requires too much sex from him and causes to his death. Story 5: A husband entrusts his wife and daughter to a music teacher who is considered inverted and therefore inoffensive: he has relationships with two women separately and together.
Movie: The Thousand and One Nights of Boccaccio in Canterbury
Top 8 Billed Cast
Zia Alessandra
Fioretta
Tarsia
Geoffrey Chaucer
Friar
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Boccaccio dreams of making a trip to hell and listening to the licentious tales of the damned: Story 1: Two couples, unknown to each one of them agree for swinging, but each meets one's own spouse. Story 2: A friar takes advantage, with deception, of a young bride obsessed with her insatiable husband. Story 3: A merchant is absent from home by entrusting his wife to her nephew and she initiates him to sexual experiences. Story 4: A husband has a homosexual relationship with one of his workers; the wife threatens the worker and requires too much sex from him and causes to his death. Story 5: A husband entrusts his wife and daughter to a music teacher who is considered inverted and therefore inoffensive: he has relationships with two women separately and together.
Release Date
1973-07-19
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4.6
Rating:
2.3 startsTagline
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Italiano
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