Before the Revolution (1964) — drama, romance film. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Starring Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli, Allen Midgette, Morando Morandini. This page maps 6 characters and 8 relationships between them as an interactive character network. Rated 7/10 from 119 votes.
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A young Italian communist grapples with ideological disillusionment, forbidden love, and bourgeois compromise.
Drama, Romance · 7/10 · 107 min · 1964
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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