User:Helloweb/Dekameron (series)

"Dekameron" is a Slovenian series created by TV Ljubljana based on a literary proposal by the Italian Renaissance writer Giovanni Boccaccio.

The tickling satirical stories were adapted into scripts by the writer and editor of the TV Ljubljana feature program Saša Vuga, and directed by Václav Hudeček, who came to Slovenia from the Czech Republic after the end of the Prague Spring and brought with him his closest collaborators – director of photography Vladimir Tumo and set designer Miloš Ditrich.

The television treatment of Boccaccio's short stories did not rely closely on the author, selecting fourteen stories from the original hundred short stories, and not following the chronological sequence in the Decameron.

The "TV series in 14 stories" featured as many as 200 actors, almost all of the greatest actors of the time, led by Stane Sever in the role of a mischievous writer who introduced viewers to new intriguing tales of the human spirit in each episode. In the eighth episode Sever died suddenly. The role of Boccaccio was taken over by Stevo Žigon.

The costume designer was Alenka Bartl, the master of mask design was Zoran Lemajič, and the editor was Milka Badjura.

The series was made in the studio of the then VIBA film in the old Jožef's Church, and the external recordings were shot in Istria -- in Buje and Grožnjan.

The series was filmed in 1970 and 1971, and the first episode premiered on December 16, 1971. In 2013 the series was digitized and restored, and after many years it was re-aired but not in the original order of episodes.