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
Franco Ferrara
Conductor
Camillo Bazzoni
Camera Operator
Arnaldo Bagnasco
Second Assistant Director
Giorgio Maulini
Second Assistant Director
Rodolfo Martello
Unit Manager
Francesco De Giuli
Production Secretary
Michele Trimarchi
Makeup Artist
Romano Pampaloni
Sound
Otello Flusi
Sound Recordist
Orlando Dolci
Key Grip
Tullio Marini
Gaffer
Mario Bernocchi
Producer
Vittorio Cafiero
Production Design
Angelo Canevari
Production Design
Federico Forquet
Costume Design