The Conformist (film)

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 JeanLouis Trintignant and Stefania Sandrelli, and features Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio, Fosco Giachetti, Jos Quaglio, Dominique Sanda and Pierre Clmenti. The film was a coproduction of Italian, French, and West German film companies.

The film opens with Marcello Clerici JeanLouis 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 morphineaddicted mother at the familys decaying villa and his unhinged father at an insane asylum. ........

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