Conversation Piece 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 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 there, uncut, in 1983. The word cunt was removed from its UK original release but restored on the British DVD edition. Retired American professor lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome.
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| Release date: | 1974 |
| Directed by: | Luchino Visconti |
| Runtime: | 121 Minutes |
| Producer: | Giovanni Bertolucci |
| Editor: | Ruggero Mastroianni |
| Music by: | Franco Mannino |
| Cinematography: | Pasqualino De Santis |
| Screenplay by: | Luchino Visconti, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Enrico Medioli |