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Conversation Piece

Name: Conversation Piece
Director: Luchino Visconti
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1974
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Berger, Claudia Marsani, Stefano Patrizi

A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.

1974 · Directed by Luchino Visconti · 121 min · Drama · Romance · 17 frames

Tagline

A tangled web of bizarre mystery

Crew

Screenplay: Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti
Cinematography: Pasqualino De Santis
Edited by: Ruggero Mastroianni
Music: Franco Mannino
Production design: Mario Garbuglia
Produced by: Giovanni Bertolucci

Cast

Burt Lancaster as Professor
Silvana Mangano as Marquess Bianca Brumonti
Helmut Berger as Konrad Huebel
Claudia Marsani as Lietta Brumonti
Stefano Patrizi as Stefano
Elvira Cortese as Erminia
Philippe Hersent as Doorman
Guy Tréjan as Art Dealer
Jean-Pierre Zola as Blanchard
Umberto Raho as Police Inspector Bernai

Production

Country: France, Italy
Language: Italian
Studios: Gaumont International, Rusconi Film
Themes: art collector, rome, italy, political activism, painting, gigolo, bourgeoisie, retirement, aging, loneliness, class differences

More by Luchino Visconti

The Leopard — 1963
Ludwig — 1973
The Damned — 1969
The Innocent — 1976
Senso — 1954
White Nights — 1957
Bellissima — 1952
La Terra Trema — 1949
Obsession — 1943
Death in Venice — 1971
Rocco and His Brothers — 1960
Sandra — 1965

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