The Conformist ( Il conformista (Der Konformist) ) ( Der große Irrtum (Le conformiste) )

The Conformist (Blu-Ray) (*)

~~$26.99~~ $20.97

Original Title: Il conformista (Der Konformist)
Alternate Title: Der große Irrtum (Le conformiste)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
David Donatello Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
112 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1970 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Bernardo Bertolucci

Written By:
Bernardo Bertolucci
Alberto Moravia

Actors:
Jean-Louis Trintignant ..... Marcello Clerici
Stefania Sandrelli ..... Giulia
Gastone Moschin ..... Manganiello
Enzo Tarascio ..... Professor Quadri
Fosco Giachetti ..... Il colonnello
José Quaglio ..... Italo
Dominique Sanda ..... Anna Quadri
Pierre Clémenti ..... Lino
Yvonne Sanson ..... Madre di Giulia
Milly ..... Madre di Marcello
Giuseppe Addobbati ..... Padre di Marcello
Christian Aligny ..... Raoul
Carlo Gaddi ..... Hired Killer
Umberto Silvestri ..... Hired Killer
Furio Pellerani ..... Hired Killer

Synopsis:

At the peak of his creative powers the 29 year old Bernardo Bertolucci, eschewed the influence of mentor, Jean-Luc Godard and partnered up with Vittorio Storaro and developed his own style for one of the most visually dazzling, politically and psychologically intriguing and possibly greatest of all Italian films. Told in a non linear structure that would go on to influence The Godfather Part II (not the only influence on Coppola's film), the story begins in Rome, 1938. Marcello (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a young fascist who takes on the job of assassinating his former professor who has fled to Paris. With his girlfriend (Stefania Sandrelli) in tow he meets the professor and his young wife (Dominique Sanda). A thriller as well as study of Italian politics and psychological character, Bertolucci's Oscar nominated adaptation of Alberto Moravia's novel (an adaptation Moravia greatly admired) has gone on to influence filmmakers such as Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese and Michael Mann and remains one of the great triumphs of world cinema. Arrow Academy is proud to present Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece on DVD and Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.

The Conformist is Bernardo Bertolucci's melancholy, lovingly crafted portrait of Italy's fascist era, and the pressures forcing individuals to accede to oppressive political regimes. Marcello (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a weak man whose only desire is to fit in, to be accepted; he is the conformist of the title. In Mussolini's Italy, he conforms by serving the state, agreeing to turn his honeymoon with the lovely but empty-headed Giulia (Stefania Sandrelli) into a cover for an assassination assignment. His mission is to go to Paris and track down his former professor, Quadri (Enzo Tarascio), who had fled from the Italian fascists. Instead, the continually dithering and uncertain Marcello gets tangled up in an affair with Quadri's wife Anna (Dominique Sanda) and finds his conformist resolve shaken by Quadri and Anna's idealism.

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.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 16 July, 2012.

Customers who bought this product also purchased

The Captive Heart (Blu-Ray)

A Matter of Life and Death (1946) (Blu-Ray)

Hornets' Nest (1970) (Blu-Ray)