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Before the Revolution (1964)

May 13, 1964 Romance, Drama 1h 47m
User Score
71%
114 votes
Internet Movie Database
68%
Rotten Tomatoes
93%

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.

Bernardo Bertolucci
Director

Top Billed 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

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Media

Before the Revolution (1964) - trailer
Before the Revolution (1964) - trailer
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