Italy / France / West Germany,
1970, 115 min
Directed by:
Bernardo BertolucciScreenplay:
Bernardo BertolucciCinematography:
Vittorio StoraroComposer:
Georges DelerueCast:
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Fosco Giachetti, Dominique Sanda, Yvonne Sanson, Carlo Gaddi, Umberto Silvestri (more)VOD (1)
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This story opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more of a conformist. Marcello is going to Paris on his honeymoon and his bosses have an assignment for him there. Look up an old professor who fled Italy when the fascists came into power. At the border of Italy and France, where Marcello and his bride have to change trains, his bosses give him a gun with a silencer. In a flashback to 1917, we learn why sex and violence are linked in Marcello's mind. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Academy Awards
- 1972 - Bernardo Bertolucci (Best Adapted Screenplay)
Golden Globes
- 1972 - Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- 1971 - Bernardo Bertolucci (Best Director)
Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival)
- 1970 - Bernardo Bertolucci (Golden Bear for Best Film)