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The Canterbury Tales

Name: The Canterbury Tales
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Genre: Comedy, History, Drama
Released: 1972
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Josephine Chaplin

Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.

1972 · Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini · 111 min · Comedy · History · Drama · 14 frames

Tagline

From the team that gave you "Decameron", Geoffrey Chaucer's Lustiest Tales of Merrie Olde England!

Crew

Screenplay: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cinematography: Tonino Delli Colli
Edited by: Nino Baragli
Music: Ennio Morricone
Production design: Dante Ferretti
Produced by: Alberto Grimaldi

Cast

Hugh Griffith as Sir January
Laura Betti as The Wife from Bath
Ninetto Davoli as Perkin
Franco Citti as Devil
Josephine Chaplin as May
Alan Webb as Old Man
Pier Paolo Pasolini as Geoffrey Chaucer
Vernon Dobtcheff as The Franklin
Jenny Runacre as Alison
Adrian Street as Fighter

Production

Country: France, Italy
Language: Italian, English
Studios: Les Productions Artistes Associés, PEA
Themes: adultery, italian, homophobia, eroticism, marriage, hell, extortion, wedding, love affair, devil

More by Pier Paolo Pasolini

The Gospel According to St. Matthew — 1965
Medea — 1969
The Decameron — 1971
Oedipus Rex — 1967
Arabian Nights — 1974
Mamma Roma — 1962
Theorem — 1968
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom — 1976

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