This film is based on the literary work "The Canterbury Tales". The film selects eight stories from the many independent short stories in the original work, and reflects the social conditions of medieval Britain in a short, sharp and naked narrative style. This film, which emphasizes sex as a weapon to resist religious constraints and fight for human freedom, realistically portrays a variety of different people, including the extravagant city lord, the villain who specializes in informing and blackmailing, the student who seduces the neighboring young woman by trickery, the dissolute and licentious female rich man, and the little scoundrel living at the bottom of society. The film "The Canterbury Tales", directed by the famous Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, is adapted from the collection of poetic novels of the same name by the 14th-century British poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Director Pasolini personally plays Chaucer. This film is the second part of Pasolini's "Life Trilogy", the other two being "The Decameron" and "One Thousand and One Nights". The film won the Golden Bear Award at the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival in 1972.