Bernardo Bertolucci - 1970
cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio
camera: Vittorio Storaro
screenplay: Bertolucci
source: novel by Alberto Moravia
music: Georges Delerue
country of origin: Italy
An Italian man tainted by a perverse childhood encounter seeks to cleanse himself through conformity, which he pursues by immersing himself in bourgeois and fascist life as WWII approaches and passes. Dark drama.