Prima della rivoluzione

7.1/10 from 17 votes

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Date of release: 13 May 1964

Description

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.

Extra

Runtime	115 minute
Producer	Cineriz Iride Cinematografica
Language	Italiano
Themes	revolution communism
Actors	Adriana Asti Allen Midgette Francesco Barilli Morando Morandini Cristina Pariset Cecrope Barilli