A few days after Gene Hackman's death, Giunti Odeon pays tribute to one of the greatest actors in film history with one of his most extraordinary films, directed by a master like Francis Ford Coppola. Golden Palme winner at the Cannes Film Festival in 1974, The Conversation is a psychological thriller that over time has become a true cult film. On the notes of the evocative soundtrack composed by David Shire and with extraordinary sound editing by Walter Murch, an unforgettable Gene Hackman - alienated face, moustache, mackintosh and saxophone - plays the role of the paranoid Harry Caul, an expert in electronic surveillance grappling with a case that could have dramatic consequences and that plunges him into a profound crisis of conscience. It is a fierce document against the absurdities of technical progress, which annihilates man's personality without making him more efficient. When the film was released, the Watergate case had just broken out in America.