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The Conversation

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from 14 May 2026
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Cinema
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16+

A paranoid thriller about surveillance, wiretapping, and morality, embodying the rebellious spirit of the 1970s.

1974, Francis Ford Coppola

United States
113 minutes, English with Russian subtitles

Starring: Gene Hackman, Cindy Williams, John Cazale, Harrison Ford

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Harry Caul is a surveillance and wiretapping specialist who gathers compromising material upon request. Yet another conversation he is hired to wiretap unsettles the professional: it seems he might be able to prevent a tragedy. Or might he not?

Shot from The Conversation, 1974

“The Conversation” perfectly encapsulates the disaffection, alienation, and paranoia infecting America’s body politic in the era of Watergate.

— Budd Wilkins, Slant Magazine

Woven into a mind-bending detective plot, the story of a man intruding on another’s private life gradually unfolds into a disarming commentary on guilt.

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