Before the Revolution

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

107 mins
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.

Aldo Scavarda

Director of Photography

Gino Paoli

Original Music Composer

Ennio Morricone

Original Music Composer

Gianni Amico

First Assistant Director

Gianni Amico

Co-Writer

Camillo Bazzoni

Camera Operator

Vittorio Storaro

Assistant Camera

Arnaldo Bagnasco

Second Assistant Director

Giorgio Maulini

Second Assistant Director

Rodolfo Martello

Unit Manager

Francesco De Giuli

Production Secretary

Michele Trimarchi

Makeup Artist

Otello Flusi

Sound Recordist

Vittorio Cafiero

Production Design

Angelo Canevari

Production Design

Federico Forquet

Costume Design

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