The Canterbury Tales

(1972)

★ 6.1 IMDb · 237 votes

Genres: Comedy, History, Drama

Year: 1972

Runtime: 111 мин

Country: France, Italy

Director: Пьер Паоло Пазолини

Cast: Хью Гриффит, Laura Betti, Нинетто Даволи, Franco Citti, Josephine Chaplin, Алан Уэбб, Пьер Паоло Пазолини, Вернон Добчефф, Jenny Runacre, Adrian Street

Plot

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

The Middle Ages, England. 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 a different pilgrim, as is the case in Chaucer's stories, but simply appears 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.