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The Conformist

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The Conformist
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R,1hr 55min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
October 22, 1970
Director:
Bernardo Bertolucci
Distributor:
Paramount Pictures
Starring:
Stefania Sandrelli, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Sanda  ...more
Synopsis: The conformist is 1930s Italian Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a coward who has spent his life accommodating others so that he can "belong." Marcello agrees to kill a political refugee, on orders from the Fascist government, even though the victim-to-be is his college mentor. The film is a character study of the kind of person who willingly "conforms" to the ideological fashions of his day. In this case, director Bernardo Bertolucci suggests that Marcello's desire to conform is rooted ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
An international art cinema success, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist (1970) turned the more straightforward Alberto Moravia novel into an elliptically subjective story about the psychological birth of a 1930s Italian Fascist. To show how Clerici is driven and entrapped by a past sexual trauma, Bertolucci cuts from Clerici's journey to kill his radical former professor to flashbacks embedded within ... Full Review
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Stefania Sandrelli
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Jean-Louis Trintignant
Marcello Clerici
Dominique Sanda
Anna Quadri
Pierre Clémenti
Pasqualino Semirama
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