The Conformist ("Il Conformista")

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	Jean-Louis Trintignant	Marcello Clerici
	Stefania Sandrelli	Giulia
	Gastone Moschin	Manganiello
	Enzo Tarascio	Professor Quadri
	Fosco Giachetti	Il colonnello
	José Quaglio	Italo Montanari
	Yvonne Sanson	Madre di Giulia
	Milly	Madre di Marcello
	Antonio Maestri	Confessore
	Alessandro Haber	Cieco ubriaco
	Luciano Rossi	Biondo cieco
	Massimo Sarchielli	Cieco
	Pierangelo Civera	Franz
	Giuseppe Addobbati	Padre di Marcello
	Christian Aligny	Raoul
	Carlo Gaddi	Hired Killer
	Umberto Silvestri	Hired Killer
	Furio Pellerani	Hired Killer
	Luigi Antonio Guerra
	Orso Maria Guerrini
	Pasquale Fortunato	Marcello bambino
	Pierre Clementi	Lino
	Dominique Sanda	Anna Quadri
	Gianni Amico	Allievo Prof. Quadri
	Joel Barcellos	Allievo Prof. Quadri

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Director	Bernardo Bertolucci
Writer	Alberto Moravia, Bernardo Bertolucci
Producer	Giovanni Bertolucci, Maurizio Lodi-Fe, Henri Michaud
Musician	Georges Delerue
Photography	Vittorio Storaro

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Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist returns in a dazzling new restoration supervised by the director and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro! One of the enduring masterpieces of the 1970s, Bertolucci’s breakthrough film The Conformist is an elegant portrait of the death throes of Italian Fascism and a triumph of pure style. Adapted by Bertolucci (an Oscar-nominated screenplay) from Alberto Moravia’s 1951 novel, it chronicles the life of secret police functionary Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant), who is sent on a mission to assassinate his former teacher, Professor Quadri (Enzo Tarascio), a leftist activist in exile in Paris. Clerici uses his honeymoon with new wife Giulia (Stefania Sandrelli) as a cover for the job. But he soon becomes entranced by Quadri’s sensuous, haunted wife Anna (Dominique Sanda), and the Fascist tenets he once accepted without question begin to waver in his mind. Legendary cinematographer Storaro (Apocalypse now) and production designer Fernando Scarfiotti (Scarface, American Gigolo) make spectacular use of the Fascist-era brutalist architecture, its blandly symmetrical structures acting as another form of control. with a gorgeous score by Georges Delerue and incandescent performances by a star-studded cast, The Conformist is a towering accomplishment that for the past four decades has enraptured audiences and influenced filmmakers around the world.

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