Before the Revolution
“Italy is the place where they've made an art of everything - especially love!”
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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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Edited by Roberto PerpignaniShot by Aldo ScavardaScored by Ennio MorriconeDesigned by Vittorio Cafiero
Also known as
- Vor der Revolutionde
- Before the Revolutionen
- Antes de la revoluciónes
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16 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Adriana Asti
as Fabrizio's aunt
Francesco Barilli
as Fabrizio
Allen Midgette
as Fabrizio's friend
Morando Morandini
as Fabrizio's teacher
Cristina Pariset
as Fabrizio's girlfriend-wife
Cecrope Barilli
as Gina's ex-lover
Evelina Alpi
as The little girl
Gianni Amico
as A friend
Goliardo Padova
as The painter
Guido Fanti
as Enore
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2Other crew
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