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The Decameron (Il Decameron) is a 1971 film by Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the novel Decamerone by Giovanni Boccaccio. It is the first movie of Pasolini's Trilogy of life, the others being The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights.

The tales contain abundant nudity, sex, slapstick and scatological humor. The film was entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize.

Adaptation
While Boccaccio's novel has a framing story and 100 short stories, Pasolini's adaptation has no framing story, ten stories adapted directly from the book, and ten shorter episodes written by Pasolini.

Cast

 * Franco Citti - Ciappelletto
 * Ninetto Davoli - Andreuccio of Perugia
 * Jovan Jovanovic - Rustico (scenes deleted)
 * Vincenzo Amato - Masetto of Lamporecchio
 * Angela Luce - Peronella
 * Giuseppe Zigaina - Monk
 * Gabriella Frankel
 * Vincenzo Cristo
 * Pier Paolo Pasolini - Allievo di Giotto (as P.P. Pasolini)
 * Giorgio Iovine
 * Salvatore Bilardo
 * Vincenzo Ferrigno - Giannello
 * Luigi Seraponte
 * Antonio Diddio
 * Mirella Catanesi