Conversation Piece (Italian: Gruppo di famiglia in un interno) is an award-winning 1974 film by Italian director Luchino Visconti.
The film features an international cast including the American actor Burt Lancaster, the Austrian Helmut Berger and the Italians Silvana Mangano and Claudia Cardinale (in a very short role as the professor's wife) and the French actress Dominique Sanda in a cameo as the professor's mother. It was shot in English langu...
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Conversation Piece (Italian: Gruppo di famiglia in un interno) is an award-winning 1974 film by Italian director Luchino Visconti.
The film features an international cast including the American actor Burt Lancaster, the Austrian Helmut Berger and the Italians Silvana Mangano and Claudia Cardinale (in a very short role as the professor's wife) and the French actress Dominique Sanda in a cameo as the professor's mother. It was shot in English language, however, an Italian dubbed version was also produced at the time, in which Lancaster's and Berger's lines are dubbed into Italian by other actors.
The film was censored in Spain for the nude and political content and because Francisco Franco's daughter and son-in-law are mentioned. However it was re-released uncut in 1983 in Spain. The word cunt was removed from its UK original release but restored on the British DVD edition.
Retired American professor (Burt Lancaster) lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted...
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