The Conformist [Il conformista]

Los Altos, CA: Paramount Pictures, Circa 1970. Vintage lobby card for the 1970 Italian film. Text in Italian.

From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah.

Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene, befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars, Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, Salvador Dali, and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design, his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A young upper-middle-class Italian joins Mussolini's Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Antifascism, and his first assignment is to assassinate his former teacher, a political dissident now residing in France. An intricate and incisive examination of the psychological tribulations of a man who will do anything to be "normal," compared stylistically to early German Expressionist works, such as Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will" (1935) or Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" (1927).

13.75 x 11 inches. Near Fine.

Arrow Academy 709. Grant Italy. Schrader 14.

[Book #162151]