The Conformist(1970)

Name: The Conformist
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Genre: Drama
Released: Oct 22, 1970
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Dominique Sanda

Paramount Pictures

R
1h 53m
- Drama

Release Date: Oct 22, 1970

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

Release Details

Original Release | Oct 22, 1970 | Limited

2014 Re-release | Aug 29, 2014 | Limited (Kino Lorber)

2023 Re-release | Jan 6, 2023 | Limited (Kino Lorber)

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Box Office Results

2025-04-29T04:27:24.906Z

All Releases (3)
Total US & Canada:
$238,792
Total International
$422,689
Total Worldwide:
$661,481

Total International
$20,755
Total Worldwide:
$20,755

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Director & Top Cast

Bernardo Bertolucci
Director

Jean-Louis Trintignant
Marcello

Stefania Sandrelli
Giulia

Gastone Moschin
Manganiello

Dominique Sanda
Anna

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Mono

Aspect Ratio: 1.66 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: Italy, France, West Germany

Language: Italian,French,Latin,Chinese

Summaries

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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. — Dale O'Connor In Benito Mussolini 's Fascist Italy, Marcello Clerici, an eager would-be member of the Party, finds himself desperate to fit in. And before long, after marrying his beautiful well-off fiancée, Giulia, the covert assassin is dispatched to Paris to liquidate his former college professor and now a subversive anti-Fascist, Luca Quadri. But there, amid uncomfortable flashbacks from his early childhood, hesitant Clerici will fall hard for his professor's alluring wife, Anna, while on his honeymoon, threatening the outcome of his mission. Is there a connection between Marcello's childhood and his inner torment? — Nick Riganas

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The Conformist(1970)

Box Office Results

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Director & Top Cast

Bernardo Bertolucci

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Stefania Sandrelli

Gastone Moschin

Dominique Sanda

Technical Specifications

Other Details

Summaries

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