Before the Revolution (Prima della rivoluzione) 60 years old

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

Before the Revolution

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 93 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 101) 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 poster
Before the Revolution (60 years)

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

  • Release day: Wednesday, May 13, 1964
  • Runtime: 115 minutes