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Running time. 121 minutes. Countries. Italy France. Conversation Piece (Italian: Gruppo di famiglia in un interno) is a 1974 drama film directed, co-written, and produced by Luchino Visconti. [ 1 ] It stars Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano, and Romolo Valli; with cameo appearances by Claudia Cardinale and Dominique Sanda. [ 2 ]
Conversation Piece: Directed by Luchino Visconti. With Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano, Claudia Marsani. A reclusive retired professor is faced with confronting modernity when a group of vulgar youths led by an obnoxious marchesa take up residence in his unused upper residence.
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- Drama, Romance
- Luchino Visconti
- 1977-06-23
Nov 12, 2016 · Here’s how it works. Luchino Visconti's lavish 1974 drama Conversation Piece starring Burt Lancaster gets a dual-format release following a stunning 2k restoration. Directed with operatic flare by Luchino Visconti (following his recovery from a stroke), 1974’s Conversation Piece is dominated by a finely controlled turn by Burt Lancaster as ...
Conversation Piece is a 1974 drama film directed, co-written, and produced by Luchino Visconti. It stars Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano, and Romolo Valli; with cameo appearances by Claudia Cardinale and Dominique Sanda.
- Luchino Visconti
Feb 24, 2012 · Eleven years after delivering one of his finest performances in Luchino Visconti's 1963 masterpiece The Leopard, Burt Lancaster and the director joined forces once again in a far more modern and scaled-down meditation on similar themes with Conversation Piece. Here Lancaster plays an aging and cultured art professor living in an ornate palazzo, with an open apartment space above him he's ...
- Luchino Visconti
- Burt Lancaster
Aug 6, 2024 · Conversation Piece depicts Italian society in its decadence, but takes no sides, except on a purely human level. Practically every character in the film is both scum and victim; the shells peel ...
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In 1974, Luchino Visconti was nearly seventy and had worked as a filmmaker for thirty years. He was in ill health and his most glorious films were behind him. When it came time to make Conversation Piece, which would become his second-to-last film, he needed something fairly simple to shoot, like something that took place in one building.
