The Conformist (Il conformista)
German title: Der große Irrtum
Francaise title: Le conformiste
Spain title: El conformista
Greek title: Ο Κομφορμίστας
Russian title: Конформист
Original title: Il conformista
Francaise title: Le conformiste
Spain title: El conformista
Greek title: Ο Κομφορμίστας
Russian title: Конформист
Original title: Il conformista
Alternative titles:
Der Konformist | O konformistas
Der Konformist | O konformistas
Drama – Italy, France, FRG
Production year: 1969
Movie length: 111 minutes
Production year: 1969
Movie length: 111 minutes
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Writer: Bernardo Bertolucci, Alberto Moravia
Cinematograph: Vittorio Storaro
Music: Georges Delerue
Writer: Bernardo Bertolucci, Alberto Moravia
Cinematograph: Vittorio Storaro
Music: Georges Delerue
Movie description:
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.
Weak-willed Italian Marcello Clerici willingly conforms to the implicit demands of the society around him, agrees to the orders of the Nazi high command in Italy to undertake a mission in Paris to assassinate his former mentor who is now a political dissident. The relationships and the tantalizing tango that he participates in with his mentor, his mentor’s beautiful wife, his blind friend (sympathizer of fascism), and his young and naïve wife, do not just make for complex character study, but also in many ways a powerful commentary on the rise of the horrific movement in Italy and other European countries post World War I.
In a flashback we see him as a boy during World War I, who finds himself isolated from society by his family’s wealth. He is socially humiliated by his schoolmates until he is rescued by chauffeur Lino. Lino offers to show him a pistol and then makes sexual advances towards Marcello, which he partially responds to before grabbing the pistol and shooting wildly into the walls and apparently killing Lino.
Weak-willed Italian Marcello Clerici willingly conforms to the implicit demands of the society around him, agrees to the orders of the Nazi high command in Italy to undertake a mission in Paris to assassinate his former mentor who is now a political dissident. The relationships and the tantalizing tango that he participates in with his mentor, his mentor’s beautiful wife, his blind friend (sympathizer of fascism), and his young and naïve wife, do not just make for complex character study, but also in many ways a powerful commentary on the rise of the horrific movement in Italy and other European countries post World War I.
In a flashback we see him as a boy during World War I, who finds himself isolated from society by his family’s wealth. He is socially humiliated by his schoolmates until he is rescued by chauffeur Lino. Lino offers to show him a pistol and then makes sexual advances towards Marcello, which he partially responds to before grabbing the pistol and shooting wildly into the walls and apparently killing Lino.
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