The East, for Pasolini, is a place of the spirit where one finds that desired and dreamed of world, which does not exist in this West and which in that fairytale film, The Flower of the Thousand and One Nights, is brought to the screen with a fantastic narrative and with the colours of dreams. The director had not reneged on his promise: “It will be my most colourful film, the most richly coloured”, and the chosen locations and the Middle Eastern populations already testified to this, along with the costumes by Danilo Donati worn by hundreds of extras.