Before the Revolution

05/13/1964

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1hr 47min

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Romance

,Drama

Italy is the place where they've made an art of everything - especially love!

STORY

The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and Marxist, engaged to the lovely but bourgeois Clelia, and stung by the drowning of his mercurial friend Agostino, a possible suicide. Gina is herself a bundle of nervous energy, alternately sweet, seductive, poetic, distracted, and unhinged. They begin a love affair after Agostino's funeral, then Gina confuses Fabrizio by sleeping with a stranger. Their visits to Cesare and then to Puck, one of Gina's older friends, a landowner losing his land, dramatize contrasting images of Italy's future. Their own futures are bleak.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Adriana Asti
  • Francesco Barilli
  • Allen Midgette
  • Morando Morandini
  • Cristina Pariset

    Directors

  • Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Giorgio Maulini

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Iride Cinematografica

    Production Countries

  • Italy

LANGUAGES

  • Italian

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