Before the Revolution

Before the Revolution

1964
1h 47m
7.0

7.0/10

117 votes • View on IMDb

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

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.

Status: Released

Language: IT

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Production Information

Production Companies
Iride Cinematografica
Production Countries
Italy
Spoken Languages
Italian

Quick Facts

Original Title Prima della rivoluzione
Release Date May 13, 1964
Status Released
Language IT
IMDb ID tt0056371

Cast

Adriana Asti
Adriana Asti

Gina

Francesco Barilli
Francesco Barilli

Fabrizio

Allen Midgette
Allen Midgette

Agostino

Morando Morandini
Morando Morandini

Cesare

Cristina Pariset
Cristina Pariset

Clelia

Cecrope Barilli
Cecrope Barilli

Puck

Evelina Alpi
Evelina Alpi

Evelina

Gianni Amico
Gianni Amico

Amico

Key Crew

Bernardo Bertolucci
Director
Bernardo Bertolucci
Screenplay
Mario Bernocchi
Producer