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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Countries
France Italy Federal Republic of Germany
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Year
1970
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Genre
Drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Alternative titles
- Il conformista Original Italian
Introduction
“The Conformist sees the full flowering of Bertolucci’s stylistic flamboyance. The film at once intellectually disavows ‘decadence’ yet acknowledges an irresistible fascination for it.”
Robin Wood, International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1990
Bernardo Bertolucci’s elegant but chilling drama about the psychology of fascism unfolds through a complex flashback structure, as Marcello Clerici (Trintignant) is driven in final pursuit of Luca Quadri (Enzo Tarascio), his onetime philosophy tutor and now a renowned anti-Fascist whom he has been ordered to assassinate.
Richly designed by Ferdinando Scarfiotti to reflect the fashions and imposing architecture of the Mussolini era, the film is stunningly shot by Vittorio Storaro, whose gleaming, dynamic cinematography later proved an inspiration to American directors such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. One especially striking sequence sees Clerici being seduced by his fiancée Giulia, the striated lines of her dress crisscrossing with the shadows from a venetian blind to make a chiaroscuro web of light and darkness.
Bertolucci’s The Spider’s Stratagem (1970) also examines Italy’s totalitarian past, in the story of young man who returns to his hometown to investigate his hero father’s death.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Marcello Clerici
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Giulia
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Manganiello
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Professor Quadri
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colonel
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Italo
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Giulia's mother
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Marcello's mother
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confessor
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drunk blind man
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Cieco
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Franz
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Marcello's father
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Raoul
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killer
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killer
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Marcello as a child
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Anna Quadri
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Lino Seminara
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[minister]
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[Luca]
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[gipsy]
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[Marcello's sister]
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[.]
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Credits
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Direction:
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Director
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Assistant Director
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Assistant Director
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Continuity
Production:
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©
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Production Company
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Production Company
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Production Company
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Producer
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General Organiser
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Associate Producer
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Unit Production Manager (France)
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Production Supervisor
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Production Supervisor
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Administration
Writing:
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Screenplay
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Screenplay
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Based on the novel'The Conformist' by
Photography:
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Director of Photography
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Camera Operator
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1st Assistant Camera
Editing:
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Editor
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Assistant Editor
Design:
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Art Director
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Assistant Art Director
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Set Decorator
Costumes:
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Costumes
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Assistant Costumer
Make-up:
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Make-up
Music:
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Music Composed and Conducted by
Sound:
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Sound Recording
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Sound Re-recording
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Sound Mixer
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