The Conformist: This story opens in nineteen thirty-eight in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will
make him even more 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.
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