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Eight of Geoffrey Chaucer’s lusty tales come to life on-screen in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s gutsy and delirious The Canterbury Tales, which was shot in England and offers a remarkably earthy re-creation of the medieval era. From the story of a nobleman struck blind after marrying a much younger and promiscuous bride to a climactic trip to a hell populated by friars and demons (surely one of the most outrageously conceived and realized sequences ever committed to film), this is an endlessly imaginative work of merry blasphemy, framed by Pasolini’s portrayal of Chaucer himself.
Original Release
09/16/1972
US Release
05/30/1980
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Hugh Griffith | Sir January |
Laura Betti | The Wife from Bath |
Ninetto Davoli | Perkin |
Franco Citti | The Devil / Devil |
Josephine Chaplin | May |
Alan Webb | Old Man |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | Geoffrey Chaucer |
J.P. Van Dyne | The Cook |
Vernon Dobtcheff | The Franklin |
Adrian Street | Fighter |
Directors
Writers
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Geoffrey Chaucer
Cast
Name | Character |
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Hugh Griffith | Sir January |
Laura Betti | The Wife from Bath |
Ninetto Davoli | Perkin |
Franco Citti | The Devil / Devil |
Josephine Chaplin | May |
Alan Webb | Old Man |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | Geoffrey Chaucer |
J.P. Van Dyne | The Cook |
Vernon Dobtcheff | The Franklin |
Adrian Street | Fighter |
Orla Pederson | Pilgrim |
Derek Deadman | The Pardoner |
Nicholas Smith | Friar |
George Bethell Datch | Host of the Tabard |
Dan Thomas | Nicholas |
Michael Balfour | The Carpenter |
Jenny Runacre | Alison |
Peter Cain | Absalom |
Daniele Buckler | Pilgrim |
John Francis Lane | Greedy friar |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Alberto Grimaldi | Producer |