Il Conformista

In Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy, Marcello Clerici, an eager would-be member of the Party, finds himself desperate to fit in. And before long, after marrying his beautiful well-off fiancee, Giulia, the covert assassin is dispatched to Paris to liquidate his former college professor and now a subversive anti-Fascist, Luca Quadri. But there, amid uncomfortable flashbacks from his early childhood, hesitant Clerici will fall hard for his professor's alluring wife, Anna, while on his honeymoon, threatening the outcome of his mission. Is there a connection between Marcello's childhood and his inner torment?