A Thousand and One Nights

A Thousand and One Nights

A Thousand and One Nights

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A Thousand and One Nights

1974

1h 28m

6.4(12 votes)

Animation

Adventure

Fantasy

Overview

Five different exploits of Sinbad the sailor where he gets mixed up with the pretty daughters of exotic potentates, with powerful monsters that threaten his existence, and with all sorts of teeming jungle life.

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Jan Tříska

Narrator (voice)

Jan Tříska

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