Writer-director Bernardo Bertolucci’s internationally acclaimed adaptation of Alberto Moravia’s 1951 novel casts Jean-Louis Trintignant as an emotionally unstable fascist in 1930s Italy planning the murder of his former professor. The first feature film collaboration between Bertolucci, cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, and art director Ferdinando Scarfiotti, The Conformist is one of Bertolucci’s most powerful and visually stunning films, with Scarfiotti making use of authentic fascist-era architecture to help evoke the period and the protagonist’s twisted psyche.