Pleasant Nights

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Pleasant Nights
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Directed by Armando Crispino
Luciano Lucignani
Written by Sandro Continenza
Produced by Mario Cecchi Gori
Starring Vittorio Gassman
Cinematography Leonida Barboni
Erico Menczer
Gábor Pogány
Edited byMarcello Malvestito
Music byGino Marinuzzi jr.
Release date
  • 1966 (1966)
Running time
117 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Pleasant Nights (Italian : Le piacevoli notti) is a 1966 Italian anthology comedy film directed by Armando Crispino [1] and Luciano Lucignani [1] and starring Vittorio Gassman [2] and Gina Lollobrigida. [1]

Contents

Premise

The film comprises three comedic tales set in the Middle Ages. [1]

Cast

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References

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  2. Diffrient, David Scott (2014). Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema. Edinburgh University Press. p. 93. ISBN   9780748695652.