Before the Revolution
Italy is the place where they've made an art of everything - especially love!
Genres
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
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
107 min
Release Date
1964-05-13
Status
Released
Original Language
Italian
Vote Count
114
Vote Average
7.07
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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