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Arabesque

Name: Arabesque
Director: Stanley Donen
Released: 1966-01-01

1966 film directed by Stanley Donen

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Released: 1966
Director: Stanley Donen
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1.imdb.com/title/tt0060121/Retrieved 2016-04-13
2.ofdb.de/film/19205,ArabeskeRetrieved 2016-04-13
3.filmaffinity.com/en/film405893.htmlRetrieved 2016-04-13
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Screenwriter: Peter Stone
, Julian Mitchell
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1.Stated in Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze
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Producer: Stanley Donen
Cast: Gregory Peck
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1.ofdb.de/film/19205,ArabeskeRetrieved 2016-04-13
2.filmaffinity.com/en/film405893.htmlRetrieved 2016-04-13
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, Sophia Loren
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1.ofdb.de/film/19205,ArabeskeRetrieved 2016-04-13
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, Alan Badel
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1.ofdb.de/film/19205,ArabeskeRetrieved 2016-04-13
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, John Merivale
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1.ofdb.de/film/19205,ArabeskeRetrieved 2016-04-13
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Runtime: 101 min
Genre: spy film
, comedy thriller
, comedy film
Country of origin: United States

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Arabesque is a 1966 American spy comedy thriller film produced and directed by Stanley Donen and starring Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren. The screenplay by Julian Mitchell, Stanley Price, and Peter Stone is based on the 1961 novel The Cipher by Alex Gordon. The film, along with Donen's immediately prior film Charade (1963), is usually described as being "Hitchcockian". It features as a protagonist an innocent and ordinary man thrust into dangerous and extraordinary situations. It was the last film of that genre which Donen would make.

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Director of photography: Christopher Challis
Film editor: Frederick Wilson
Title: Arabesque
Narrative location: England
Filming location: Pinewood Studios
Color: color
FSK film rating: FSK 12
Aspect ratio (W:H): 2.35:1
CNC film rating (France): no age restriction
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1.cnc.fr/professionnels/visas-et-classification/31973
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Distribution format: video on demand
Review score: 69/100(May 7, 2026) review score by: Metacritic · number of reviews/ratings: 6 critic review
74%(September 16, 2024) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes · number of reviews/ratings: 19 critic review
6.2/10(October 6, 2021) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes
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1.Stated in Rotten Tomatoes“Arabesque”Retrieved 2021-10-06
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Kijkwijzer rating: 12 content descriptor: Violence, Fear
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1.kijkwijzer.nl/films/arabesque/Retrieved 2025-06-22
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Different from: Arabesque

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