The Canterbury Tales Movie
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| Run Time: | 111 min |
| MPAA Rating: | R |
| Released: | 1971 |
| Directors: |
Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Genre/Type: |
Comedy Religious Comedy Satire Period Film Sex Comedy |
| Producers: |
Alberto Grimaldi |
Plot Synopsis by Kristie Hassen
Italian director Pier Pasolini tells four of the Chaucer tales in this graphic and satirical picture that chronicles the 14th-century's social, sexual, and religious standards in England. In Pasolini's Trilogy of Life, this second entry follows The Decameron and precedes The Arabian Nights.
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The tale order reveals to us the hierarchy structure in the group. When the structure is challenged someone steps in to correct it. The order also shows the prejudices felt between professions. It serves as a signal for the next teller to b...
This was the major literary effort of Geoffrey Chaucer and the most important piece of English literature before the plays of Shakespeare. Chaucer died in 1400. It was constructed as a series of stories, each one told by a member of a gro...
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote Canterbury Tales
Cast
| Actors | Character | Born |
| Adrian Street | ||
| Willoughby Goddard | Jul 4, 1926 in Bicester, Oxfordshire, England | |
| Albert King | Apr 25, 1923 | |
| Laura Betti | The Wife of Bath | May 1, 1934 in Bologna, Italy |
| Tom Baker | Jenkin | |
| Heather Johnson | ||
| Ninetto Davoli | Perkin | |
| Josephine Chaplin | Maggio--May | |
| Vernon Dobtcheff | ||
| Alan Webb | Old Man | |
| Vittorio Fanfoni | ||
| Hugh Griffith | Gennaio--January | May 30, 1912 in Marian Glas, Anglesey, N. Wales |
| Robin Askwith | ||
| Michael Balfour | ||
| Peter Stephens | ||
| Franca Sciutto |
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