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Before the Revolution

Before the Revolution (1964)

May. 13,1964
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6.8
| Drama Romance

Before the Revolution

1964  / 1 hr 47 min

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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Director
Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast
Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli
Producted By
Iride Cinematografica
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