Conversation Piece

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.

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  Burt Lancaster

  Professor
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  Silvana Mangano

  Marquess Bianca Brumonti
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  Helmut Berger

  Konrad Huebel
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  Claudia Marsani

  Lietta Brumonti
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  Stefano Patrizi

  Stefano
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  Elvira Cortese

  Erminia
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  Philippe Hersent

  Doorman
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  Guy Tréjan

  Art Dealer
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  Jean-Pierre Zola

  Blanchard
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  Umberto Raho

  Police Inspector Bernai