The Italian In Crowd: ‘The Conformist’
In this episode of the Fascism on Film Podcast, we look at Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist (1970), a story about Marcello Clerici, a man in Mussolini’s Italy sent to Paris to spy on—and kill—his former professor, a socialist in exile. It’s also a study of how personal weakness and the desire to “fit in” can […]