A Canterbury Tale

by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

The story concerns three young people who meet in a small village near Canterbury. An American Army Sergeant who hasn't recently received any letter from his girlfriend, a British Army Sergeant, who, used to work as a pianist in a cinema, and a young shopping assistant, who joined the army after having lost her boyfriend in the war. Chaucer is a odd pretext for this pastoral and mysterious film which aims at represent a mystical harmony between past and present, people and places, classes and nations.
Country: Gran Bretagna
Year: 1944
Running time: 124'
Format: 35 mm
Language: inglese
Subtitles: italiano
Genre: fiction
Screenplay: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cinematography: Erwin Hillier
Editing: John Seaburne
Music: Allan Gray
With: Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, John Sweet, Dennis Price, Charles Hawtrey
Produced by: The Archers