Before the Revolution (Prima della rivoluzione) 59 years old
Italy is the place where they've made an art of everything - especially love!
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.
Credits
Before the Revolution Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Adriana Asti She was 33, now 92 years old | as Gina |
| Allen Midgette He was 35, now 24 years old | as Agostino |
| Morando Morandini He was 39, 91 years old when he died | as Cesare |
| Francesco Barilli He was 21, now 81 years old | as Fabrizio |
Before the Revolution Crew
| Name | Department |
|---|---|
| Aldo Scavarda as Director of Photography. He was 40 (now 100) years old | Camera |
| Ennio Morricone as Music. He was 35 (91) years old when He died | Sound |
| Bernardo Bertolucci as Director. He was 23 (77) years old when He died | Directing |
| Bernardo Bertolucci as Story. He was 23 (77) years old when He died | Writing |
| Roberto Perpignani as Editor. He was 23 (now 83) years old | Editing |
Before the Revolution (59 years)
Italy is the place where they've made an art of everything - especially love!
- Release day: Wednesday, May 13, 1964
- Runtime: 115 minutes
