Before the Revolution
Italy is the place where they've made an art of everything - especially love!
- Drama
- Romance
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 13, 1964
- Original language
- Italian
- Spoken languages
- Italian
- Countries
- Italy
- Production
- Iride Cinematografica
- Cast
- Cristina Pariset,Evelina Alpi,Francesco Barilli,Allen Midgette,Cecrope Barilli,Gianni Amico,Morando Morandini,Adriana Asti
- Director
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Producer
- Mario Bernocchi
- Cinematography
- Aldo Scavarda
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0056371