The Canterbury Tales (1972)
Note: runs 65 min against a known 110 min minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Laura Betti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Hugh Griffith, Alan Webb, Franca Sciutto, John Francis Lane
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Canterbury Tales (Italian: I racconti di Canterbury) is a 1972 Italian medieval erotic black comedy film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini based on the medieval narrative poem by Geoffrey Chaucer. The second film in Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life", preceded by The Decameron and followed by Arabian Nights, it won the Golden Bear at the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.
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