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I racconti di Canterbury (1972)
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30 May 1980 (USA) morePlot Keywords:
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1 win moreUser Comments:
Hilarious, shrewd, very funny moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Hugh Griffith | ... | Sir January |
| Laura Betti | ... | The Wife from Bath |
| Ninetto Davoli | ... | Perkin |
| Franco Citti | ... | The Devil |
| Josephine Chaplin | ... | May |
| Alan Webb | ... | Old Man |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| J.P. Van Dyne | ... | The Cook |
 | Vernon Dobtcheff | ... | The Franklin |
| Adrian Street | ... | Fighter |
| O.T. | ... | Chief Witch-Hunter |
| Derek Deadman | ... | The Pardoner (as Derek Deadmin) |
| Nicholas Smith | ... | Friar |
| George Bethell Datch | ... | Host of the Tabard (as George B. Datch) |
| Dan Thomas | ... | Nicholas |
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Argentina:112 min | USA:109 min (cut) | Italy:112 min | West Germany:140 min (Berlin Film Festival) (premiere) | France:118 minColor:
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1.75 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Italy:VM14 (re-rating) (1988) | Italy:VM18 (original rating) | Finland:K-15 (cinema release) (1973) | Finland:K-18 (DVD rating) (2004) | UK:15 (video rating) (uncut) (2001) | Argentina:18 | Australia:R | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | Norway:18 | Portugal:M/16 | Sweden:15 | UK:X (original rating) (cut) | USA:X (original rating) | West Germany:16 | USA:NC-17 (re-rating) (1991) | Ireland:18 | Spain:18Fun Stuff
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The line spoken by the angel in the last segment, "Vuolsi così colà dove si puote ciò che si vuole e più non dimandare" ("'It's will'd, where will and power are one. Ask thou no more"), is a quotation from Dante Alighieri's Inferno. moreFAQ
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This is a remarkable film. One usually remembers Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as difficult, religious old English burden of school, but Pasolini was smart enough to concentrate on the humor, which travels from rude slapstick (hot iron poker shoved up the villain's behind) to merciless show of greed and it's consequences. Only after the film did I take a fresh look at Canterbury Tales and lo! it was there all along... but it required Pasolini to lay it \bare, for everyone to see.