The Canterbury Tales (1972)

NC-17 ★ 6.1/10 111 min Comedy, History, Drama France, Italy Italian

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Novel: Geoffrey Chaucer
Screenplay by: Pier Paolo Pasolini

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

Description

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

Hugh Griffith Sir January

Laura Betti The Wife from Bath

Ninetto Davoli Perkin

Franco Citti Devil

Josephine Chaplin May

Alan Webb Old Man

Pier Paolo Pasolini Geoffrey Chaucer

Vernon Dobtcheff The Franklin