Search - The Conformist [Extended Edition] [Unrated] on DVD

MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Not For Children Movie Release: 1970 DVD Release: 12/05/2006 Format: DVD - Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English, French, Italian, Spanish Subtitles: English, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 51 mins Studio: Paramount Members Wishing: 10 Genres: Drama, Psychological Drama, Political Drama

The conformist is 1930s Italian Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a coward who has spent his life accommodating others so that he can "belong." Marcello agrees to kill a political refugee, on orders from the Fascist government, even though the victim-to-be is his college mentor. The film is a character study of the kind of person who willingly "conforms" to the ideological fashions of his day. In this case, director Bernardo Bertolucci suggests that Marcello's desire to conform is rooted in his latent homosexuality. In addition to its strong storyline, the film is critically revered for the astonishing production design by Nedo Azzini, which, together with Vittorio Storaro's camerawork, recreates the atmosphere of Fascist Italy with some of the most complex visual compositions ever seen on film, filled with highly stylized uses of angles, shapes, and shadows. The Conformist was cut by five crucial minutes when first released in the US; those missing moments were restored in the 1994 reissue. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Jean-Louis Trintignant - Marcello Clerici
Dominique Sanda - Anna Quadri
Pierre Clémenti - Pasqualino Semirama
Stefania Sandrelli - Giulia
Gastone Moschin - Manganiello