The story of Ali Baba, who takes on forty thieves to save the Caliph of Baghdad and prevent a war between the Orient and the Occident.
Costume
Morgiane's outfits deserved a better script.
Practical Effects
Charming lo-fi desert battles, blessedly pre-CGI overdose.

Director
Pierre Aknine
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 2007 French-German co-production is part of a wave of European TV movies mining Orientalist fantasies for family audiences, decades after Hollywood abandoned them.
Gérard Jugnot was 56 playing Ali Baba; the original story's Ali Baba was an elderly woodcutter. Hollywood ages down, France ages up apparently.
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