Movie: "Before the Revolution"
| Release Date: | May 1964 |
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| Genres: | Drama / Romance |
| Awards | 1 nomination |
| Runtime: | 105 min. |
| Cast: | Adriana Asti (Gina), Francesco Barilli (Fabrizio) Allen Midgette (Agostino) Morando Morandini (Cesare) Cristina Pariset (Clelia) Cecrope Barilli (Puck) Evelina Alpi (The little girl) Gianni Amico (A friend) Goliardo Padova (The painter) Guido Fanti (Enore) Enrico Salvatore (The priest) Amelia Bordi (The mother) Domenico Alpi (The father) Iole Lunardi (The grandmother) Antonio Maghenzani (The brother) Ida Pellegri (Clelia's mother) |
Storyline: 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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