Cast
Adriana Asti
Gina
Francesco Barilli
Fabrizio
Allen Midgette
Agostino
Morando Morandini
Cesare
C
Cristina Pariset
Clelia
C
Cecrope Barilli
Puck
E
Evelina Alpi
Evelina
Gianni Amico
Amico
MovieRomanceDrama
Before the Revolution
19641h 47m7.0Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
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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