The Conversation
feature film, triler, USA, 1974
DIRECTED BY: Francis Ford Coppola
CAST:
Gene Hackman (Harry Caul),
Cindy Williams (Ann),
Harrison Ford (Martin Stett),
John Cazale (Stan),
Allen Garfield (Bernie Moran)
SCRIPT:
Francis Ford Coppola
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Bill Butler,
Haskell Wexler
MUSIC:
David Shire
EDITING:
Richard Chew
Synopsis:
A paranoid and egoistic surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered. A routine surveillance becomes a nightmare when Harry notices a scary thing on the tape containing the young couple’s walk in a park. He starts to worry about misuse of the recorded material and gets entangled in a labyrinth of mystery and murder.
The film won the Golden Palm and ten other prestigious film awards.
color, 113'