Il conformista is a 1970 Italian-language Drama movie directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and produced by Maurizio Lodi-fe. 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 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. Written by Dale O'Connor. Il conformista stars Jean Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Cl Menti, Jean-louis Trintignant and Gino Vagniluca. The screenplay is written by Bernardo Bertolucci which is inspired from The Conformist by Alberto Moravia. The music was composed by Georges Delerue. Cinematography was done by Vittorio Storaro and editing by Franco Arcalli. The movie has a running time of 108 minutes. It was released on 29th January 1971 in Italian,French and English languages. Il conformista was made on a budget of $0 million. Distribution rights for the movie were acquired by Paramount Pictures.