Conversation Piece
A tangled web of bizarre mystery
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12/20/1974Runtime
121 minsOverview
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.
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A glacial, increasingly uncomfortable portrait of how the intrusion of chaos and vulgarity into a carefully ordered life can expose the fragility beneath composure. Visconti turns the palazzo itself into a character, watching as genteel isolation curdles into something far more sinister.
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Burt Lancaster
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Silvana Mangano
Marquess Bianca Brumonti
Helmut Berger
Konrad Huebel
Claudia Marsani
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Stefano Patrizi
Stefano
Elvira Cortese
Erminia
Philippe Hersent
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Jean-Pierre Zola
Blanchard
Umberto Raho
Police Inspector Bernai
Enzo Fiermonte
Police Inspector
Romolo Valli
Michelli
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