Before the Revolution

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1964-05-12

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

105 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (1531 Reviews)

Director:

Bernardo Bertolucci

Genres:

Drama Romance

Cast:

Adriana Asti Francesco Barilli Allen Midgette Morando Morandini

Writer:

Bernardo Bertolucci (story)

Gianni Amico (screenplay)

Fullplot:

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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