BEFORE THE REVOLUTION
synopsis
Parma, 1962. Balancing between his Marxist ideology and his forced integration into the system, the twenty-year-old student, Fabrizio, is both repelled and attracted by his parents' bourgeois way of life. Still unable to come to terms with the untimely demise of a dear friend, and while preparing for his marriage to his statuesque and affluent but apolitical girlfriend, Clelia, Fabrizio finds himself distracted after the sudden arrival of the refined but troubled Milanese Aunt Gina. Now, confused, Fabrizio has no other choice but to give in to lust. Will Fabrizio embrace fate and his predestined ordinary life?
international title: | Before the Revolution |
original title: | Prima della rivoluzione |
country: | Italy |
year: | 1964 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Bernardo Bertolucci |
film run: | 115' |
release date: | FR 09/05/1964, IT 02/10/1964, SE 10/09/1965, UK 1965, DE 02/07/1968, ES 12/12/1969, AT 06/03/1970, PT 30/12/1976, GR 11/1996, FI 16/06/2007, RU 25/06/2011 |
screenplay: | Bernardo Bertolucci, Gianni Amico |
cast: | Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli, Allen Midgette |
cinematography by: | Aldo Scavarda |
film editing: | Roberto Perpignani |
art director: | Vittorio Cafiero, Angelo Canevari |
costumes designer: | Federico Forquet |