1964
- Drama
- Romance
Before the Revolution
Italy is the place where they've made an art of everything - especially love!
Prima della rivoluzione
Runtime
1h 47m
Countries
- IT
- Italy
Languages
- it
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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StatusReleased
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Release dateMay 13, 1964
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Original LanguageItalian
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Production Companies
- Cineriz
- Iride Cinematografica