Round 7: Tossup 6

A work in this language inspired the title of a 1944 film in which two American and British sergeants pursue a man who poured glue on a “Land Girl’s” hair. A director played the author of a work in this language in a film whose British actors were dubbed in Lombard, a dialect considered posh. In a film based on a work in this language, the camera pans 360 degrees to depict the seasons as the protagonist is tied up at the foot of a tree. In a film based on a work in this language, a woman who creates an upside-down portrait of the protagonist using a camera obscura asks for his semen-stained sash. (15[1])Works written in Italian, (*) Arabic, and this language were the bases for Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life. At the end of a film based on a work in this language starring an actor of Indian descent, a bell chimes after the title character says, “Well done. Now … off with your head.” For 10 points, name this language of the work that inspired David Lowery’s The Green Knight. ■END■

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