Conversation Piece (film)

Conversation Piece
UK DVD cover
Italian	Gruppo di famiglia in un interno
Directed by	Luchino Visconti
Written by	Suso Cecchi d'Amico Enrico Medioli Luchino Visconti
Produced by	Giovanni Bertolucci
Starring	Burt Lancaster Helmut Berger Silvana Mangano Claudia Marsani Stefano Patrizi Romolo Valli Claudia Cardinale Dominique Sanda
Cinematography	Pasqualino De Santis
Edited by	Ruggero Mastroianni
Music by	Franco Mannino
Production company	Rusconi Film Gaumont
Distributed by	Cinema International Corporation (Italy) Gaumont (France)
Release dates	10 December 1974 (1974-12-10) (Milan) 20 December 1974 (1974-12-20) (Italy) 19 March 1975 (1975-03-19) (France)
Running time	121 minutes
Countries	Italy France

Conversation Piece (Italian: Gruppo di famiglia in un interno) is a 1974 drama film directed, co-written, and produced by Luchino Visconti.^[1] It stars Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano, and Romolo Valli; with cameo appearances by Claudia Cardinale and Dominique Sanda.^[2] The film explores such themes as the collision between old and new, imminence of death, existential crises, and the sociopolitical gap between generations. The title refers to an informal group portrait, especially those painted in Britain in the 18th century, beginning in the 1720s.