I Racconti di Canterbury (1972)

Directors

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast

Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Josephine Chaplin, Dan Thomas, Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Alan Webb, Pier Paolo Pasolini, J.P. Van Dyne, Vernon Dobtcheff, Adrian Street, George Bethell Datch, Tom Baker

The story

Set in England during the Middle Ages, stories of peasants, noblemen, clergy and demons are interwoven with brief scenes from Chaucer's home life and experiences implied to be the basis for the Canterbury Tales. Each episode does not take the form of a story told by different pilgrim, as is the case in Chaucer's stories, but simply appear in sequence, seemingly without regard for the way that the tales relate to one another in the original text. All the stories are linked to the arrival of a group of pilgrims at Canterbury, among whom is the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, played by Pasolini himself.

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