CONVERSATION PIECE (1975)

LUCHINO VISCONTI

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Cast

BURT LANCASTER HELMUT BERGER SILVANA MANGANO CLAUDIA MARSANI STEFANO PATRIZI ELVIRA CORTESE ENRICO MEDIOLI SUSO CECCHI D'AMICO LUCHINO VISCONTI ENRICO MEDIOLI

Plot

A retired American academic lives a quiet, ordered and repressed existence in a beautiful old Italian mansion, but this façade of tranquillity swiftly collapses when a decadent aristocratic family rent the apartment above, their lascivious lifestyle laying bare the torment that lurks beneath his exterior. 'The Conversation Piece' is a dark head trip of a journey, a claustrophobic and sexually charged drama heavy with the scent of irretreviably damaged lives.