The Conversation

The Conversation is a 1974 American paranoia thriller from Director Francis Ford Coppola's. This was nominated for Academy Awards for best film, best script and best sound. Although none of these nominations the film silver plated, ' lost ' Coppola in the category best film of the likewise by himself directed The Godfather Part II .

The Conversation won eleven other film awards including BAFTA Awards for best editing and best film music, the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film festival and National Board of Review Awards for best English-language film, best director and best actor (Gene Hackman). ==Story[ Edit] == Harry Caul is a professional eavesdropper. He is the best in his profession and can listen to each conversation if necessary. The Director of a large company gave him the command to a young couple to follow and to eavesdrop. Along with some colleagues he said to shadow the torque on a busy town square. A block away is the conversation in a bus included.

After the command pulls Harry to his isolated work place. His Office is in an abandoned building. There he accurately the whole soundtrack overflowing and he tries to create the best quality. Then calling it to his client: they speak to the soundtrack and the money to exchange for this command.

Harry is an idiosyncratic man: by his job he knows better than anyone that you're safe anywhere. He has a phone In his apartment, but no one knows his number. Any kind of social contact is suspect and he wants to be left alone as much as possible. However, Harry a girlfriend. But as soon as the girl him some questions and he just sings the same song as the woman who typified, he becomes suspicious and he leaves.

In the company of his client he meets not the Director but his right hand, the arrogant Martin Stett. Harry has horror that the soundtrack is going to end up in the wrong hands and so he refuses to hand over the tape. When Harry while leaving the building walk in the hallway, he recognizes the man and the woman he typified commissioned by the Director.

At an exhibition of eavesdropping marks the eccentric Harry that he not only is also intrusive, Martin Stett is present. Harry makes him clear that he the tapes only to the Director himself. After the exhibition draws he with some colleagues and a woman, who is interested in him, to his isolated work place. There tells one of his friends, something about an earlier command of Harry from his period in New York. There were then three victims. He has that traumatic experience still not processed and he fears that now again the same is going to happen if he the sound track to the Director concerned. Harry does not want his friend still ask questions about further talks. The woman behind him, just let the friends will stay with Harry.

The next morning found Harry, who slept in the property, that the woman is gone and his audio tape stolen. Then he gets to come to the Director by telephone with the pictures he made of torque. In addition, he had to still pay for this command. In the Office notes Harry a frustrated Director on, while in the background the soundtrack is played by Martin Stett. On the desk he notices a picture on the Director and his wife. He recognizes the woman he has bugged again.

On the soundtrack was clearly audible how the couple made an appointment. They would come together on a hotel room nearby. Harry fears that the Director also will go to the hotel and the couple is going to kill you.Harry doesn't want to even more murders on his conscience and he also attracts to the hotel. He takes the room next to the couple and hear how it is called. On the balcony he sees on the glass wall between the two rooms in that the woman is being attacked by someone. Harry scares and rent his room in is on his bed. He wakes up after a few hours and take a look at the room of torque. The room is completely empty and there is not immediately to comment. Harry examines the bathroom and finds no traces of blood in the bathtub. But when he the toilet flushing flows blood and water from the toilet.

The next day he discovers that the couple was murdered, but not by the Director that the Director was murdered by torque. Harry retreats to his apartment and hear how his phone rings. No one knows his number and so he takes careful the Horn on: no one answers. Moments later called again. He fears that he is bugged and he goes looking for eavesdropping devices, secret microphones, etc. A paranoid Harry breaks off his apartment but finds nothing ... ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] ==
 * Gene Hackman: Harry Caul
 * John Cazale: Stan
 * Allen Garfield: William P. "Bernie" Moran
 * Frederic Forrest: Mark
 * Cindy Williams: Ann
 * Paul Michael Higgins:
 * Elizabeth MacRae: Meredith
 * Teri Garr: Amy Fredericks
 * Harrison Ford: Martin Stett