Before the Revolution (1964)
Overview
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.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | it |
| Popularity | 7.259 |
Directed By
Bernardo Bertolucci
Crew
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci
Roberto Perpignani
Aldo Scavarda
Francesco De Giuli
Gianni Amico
Giorgio Maulini
Franco Ferrara
Vittorio Storaro
Romano Pampaloni
Gino Paoli
Ennio Morricone
Gianni Amico
Arnaldo Bagnasco
Otello Flusi
Tullio Marini
Camillo Bazzoni
Orlando Dolci
Mario Bernocchi
Rodolfo Martello
Michele Trimarchi
Bernardo Bertolucci
Federico Forquet
Vittorio Cafiero
Angelo Canevari
TOP CAST
Adriana Asti
Gina
Francesco Barilli
Fabrizio
Allen Midgette
Agostino
Morando Morandini
Cesare
Cristina Pariset
Clelia
Cecrope Barilli
Puck
Evelina Alpi
Evelina
Gianni Amico
Amico
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