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Italy is the place where they've made an art of everything - especially love! - Before the Revolution
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Title: Before the Revolution

Release Date: 13 May 1964

Runtime: 1h 47m

Genre: Romance, Drama

Director: Iride Cinematografica

Production Companies: Iride Cinematografica

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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 7.1 (111 votes)

Cast

  • Gina: Adriana Asti
  • Fabrizio: Francesco Barilli
  • Agostino: Allen Midgette
  • Cesare: Morando Morandini
  • Clelia: Cristina Pariset
  • Puck: Cecrope Barilli
  • Evelina: Evelina Alpi
  • Amico: Gianni Amico
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