The Conformist
Synopsis
This story opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more of a conformist. Marcello is going to Paris on his honeymoon and his bosses have an assignment for him there. Look up an old professor who fled Italy when the fascists came into power. At the border of Italy and France, where Marcello and his bride have to change trains, his bosses give him a gun with a silencer. In a flashback to 1917, we learn why sex and violence are linked in Marcello's mind.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (13)
Production and distribution (4)
- Co-production : Marianne Productions
- Foreign production company : Mars Films Produzione
- Film exports/foreign sales : Paramount Pictures (UK)
- French distribution : Cinema International Corporation (CIC)
Full credits (10)
- Screenwriter : Bernardo Bertolucci
- Director of Photography : Vittorio Storaro
- Music Composer : Georges Delerue
- Assistant directors : Alain Bonnot, Aldo Lado
- Editor : Franco Arcalli
- Costume designer : Gitt Magrini
- Foreign producers : Maurizio Lodi-Fè, Piero La Mantia
- Author of original work : Alberto Moravia
- Co-producer : Henri Michaud
- Production Designer : Ferdinando Scarfiotti
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Literary adaptation
- Production language : Italian
- Coproducer countries : Italy (70.0%), France (30.0%)
- Original French-language productions : No
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Selections (4)
Awards (1)
Berlin International Film Festival
Germany, 1970
Interfilm Award - Honorable Mention
Journalists' Special Award
