Conversation Piece

June. 23,1977      
Rating:
7.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.

Burt Lancaster as  Professor
Helmut Berger as  Konrad Huebel
Silvana Mangano as  Bianca Brumonti
Claudia Marsani as  Lietta Brumonti
Stefano Patrizi as  Stefano
Elvira Cortese as  Erminia
Philippe Hersent as  Porter
Guy Tréjan as  Antique Dealer
Jean-Pierre Zola as  Blanchard
Umberto Raho as  Police Sergeant Bernai

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