Arabian Nights (miniseries)

:This is about the TV series; for alternate uses, see Arabian Nights (disambiguation)

Plot

The series starts in Baghdad, with Sultan Shahryar (Dougray Scott) who has gone mad after his first wife was killed by his own hand during a failed coup d?état, that she planned with Shahryar?s own brother (James Frain). Now, five years later, Shahryar believes that all women want to kill him, unfortunately the Sultan must get married or the thrown will be past to his brother. In his madness, Shahryar decides to take a wife and have her executed the next day. In order to prevent this, the clever Scheherazade (Mili Avital), a childhood friend of Shahryar, who is secretly in love with him, marries the troubled Sultan and tells him stories every night, stopping at daybreak with a cliff-hanger. In order to hear the rest of the story, Shahryar must keep Scheherazade alive until the next night. Cunningly, Scheherazade has hidden a moral within every story, to slowly bring the Sultan out of his madness.

Related Topics:
Baghdad - Shahryar - Dougray Scott - Coup d?état - James Frain - Scheherazade - Mili Avital - Cliff-hanger - Moral

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