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The explosive love story of two women who lead a professor into a complex sexual web
Certificate: 18
Running Time: 115 mins
Retail Price: £17.99
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Synopsis:
In Luchino Visconti's Conversation Piece, Burt Lancaster plays a retired American professor who lives alone in an ornate house. Into this well-ordered life comes a decadent matriarch (Silvana Mangano), her nubile teenage daughter, her husband, and her sometime-lover (Helmut Berger). They rent the upstairs apartment, and thus begins a series of intruiges, sexual involvements which provoke flashbacks of the professor's life that reveal his relationships with his wife, Cardinale, and his mother, Sanda. The Professor exists between these two realities and rushes from one to the other with torment and hesitation...

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Video Tracks:
Widescreen Anamorphic 2.35:1

Audio Tracks:
Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 English

Directed By:
Luchino Visconti

Written By:
Luchino Visconti
Enrico Medioli

Starring:
Stefano Patrizi
Claudia Marsani
Silvana Mangano
Helmut Berger
Burt Lancaster

Soundtrack By:
Piero Tosi
Yves Saint-Laurent
Vera Marzot
Franco Mannino

Director of Photography:
Pasqualino De Santis

Editor:
Ruggero Mastroianni

Production Designer:
Mario Garbuglia

Producer:
Giovanni Bertolucci

Distributor:
Arrow Films