The Conformist (film)
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Italian film poster
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| Directed by | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| Produced by | Maurizio Lodi-Fe |
| Screenplay by | Bernardo Bertolucci English Version: Lee Kresel |
| Based on |
The Conformist by Alberto Moravia |
| Starring |
Jean Louis Trintignant Stefania Sandrelli Gastone Moschin Dominique Sanda Pierre Clémenti |
| Music by | Georges Delerue |
| Cinematography | Vittorio Storaro |
| Edited by | Franco Arcalli |
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Mars Film
Marianne Productions Maran Film |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time
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111 minutes |
| Country | Italy France West Germany |
| Language |
Italian French English |
The Conformist (Italian: Il conformista) is a 1970 political drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. The screenplay was written by Bertolucci based on the 1951 novel The Conformist by Alberto Moravia. The film stars Jean-Louis Trintignant and Stefania Sandrelli, and features Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio, Fosco Giachetti, José Quaglio, Dominique Sanda and Pierre Clémenti. The film was a co-production of Italian, French, and West German film companies.
Bertolucci makes use of the 1930s art and decor associated with the Fascist era: the middle-class drawing rooms and the huge halls of the ruling elite.
The film opens with Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant) in Paris finalizing preparations to assassinate his former college professor, Luca Quadri (Enzo Tarascio). It frequently returns to the interior of a car driven by Manganiello (Gastone Moschin) as the two of them pursue the professor and his wife.
Through a series of flashbacks, we see him discussing with Italo, a blind friend, his plans to marry, his somewhat awkward attempts to join the Fascist secret police, and his visits to his morphine-addicted mother at the family's decaying villa and his unhinged father at an insane asylum.
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