Film · Drama, Comedy, History
The Canterbury Tales (1972)
From the team that gave you "Decameron", Geoffrey Chaucer's Lustiest Tales of Merrie Olde England!
Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.
- Director
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Writers
- Geoffrey Chaucer, Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Country
- France, Italy
- Language
- Italian
- Release date
- September 2, 1972
- Original title
- I racconti di Canterbury
Cast
Hugh GriffithSir January
Laura BettiThe Wife from Bath
Ninetto DavoliPerkin
Franco CittiDevil
Josephine ChaplinMay
Alan WebbOld Man
Pier Paolo PasoliniGeoffrey Chaucer
Vernon DobtcheffThe Franklin
Jenny RunacreAlison- Adrian StreetFighter
Derek DeadmanThe Pardoner
Nicholas SmithFriar- Orla PedersonPilgrim
- J.P. Van DyneThe Cook
- George Bethell DatchHost of the Tabard
- Dan ThomasNicholas
Michael BalfourThe Carpenter- Peter CainAbsalom
- Daniele BucklerPilgrim
- John Francis LaneGreedy Friar
