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Title: Conversation Piece (1974)
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Il Professore
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Konrad Huebel
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Marchesa Bianca Brumonti
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Claudia Marsani | ... |
Lietta Brumonti
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Stefano
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Elvira Cortese | ... |
Erminia
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Philippe Hersent | ... |
Portiere
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Guy Tréjan | ... |
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Jean-Pierre Zola | ... |
Blanchard
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Umberto Raho | ... |
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Enzo Fiermonte | ... |
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Romolo Valli | ... |
Micheli
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Retired professor of American origin lives solitary life in luxurious palazzo in Rome He is confronted by vulgar Italian marchesa and her companions: her lover, her daughter and daughter's boyfriend and forced to rent to them an apartment on upper floor of his palazzo. From this point his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life is taking unexpected but inevitable turn. Written by Alex Asp
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Release Date:
23 June 1977 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Emilia Ravaglia soprano
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Shot entirely in English. See more »Goofs
When the professor finds the young people naked in his flat, Lietta quotes a poem at him, saying (according to the Australian DVD subtitles) that it was Ordon's last poem. This is a misspelling of Auden (W.H. Auden). See more »Quotes
Marchesa Bianca Brumonti: He was too young to have learned this final nasty fact: grief is as precarious as anything else.See more »
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Vorrei spiegarVi, oh Dio!Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Emilia Ravaglia soprano
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Professor Lancaster leads a reclusive life in his art deco apartment, surrounded by classical paintings, books and memories. Along come new loud tenants who rent his upstairs apartment and force themselves onto the Professor who then questions his existence as a mixture of the old and new culture clash in intellectual wars and morals. Another interesting piece from Visconti's preoccupied topics of fallen aristocrats and the morality of life.