Conversation Piece
- Released on
- Runtime
- 121 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Burt Lancaster
- Helmut Berger
- Silvana Mangano
- Claudia Marsani
- Stefano Patrizi
- Elvira Cortese
- Philippe Hersent
- Guy Tréjan
- Jean-Pierre Zola
- Umberto Raho
- Enzo Fiermonte
- Romolo Valli
- George Clatot
- Valentino Macchi
- Vittorio Fanfoni
- Lorenzo Piani
- Margherita Horowitz
- Claudia Cardinale
- Dominique Sanda
Director
- Luchino Visconti
Producers
- Giovanni Bertolucci
Screenwriter
- Suso Cecchi d'Amico
- Luchino Visconti
- Enrico Medioli