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BEFORE THE REVOLUTION

PRIMA DELLA RIVOLUZIONE

By Bernardo BERTOLUCCI

VIGGO SRL - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR ITALY

Drama - Completed 1964

Bernardo Bertolucci's brilliant early film about political and emotional tensions in mid-60s.

- Year of production
- 1964
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- ITALY
- Languages
- ITALIAN
- Duration
- 112 mn
- Director(s)
- Bernardo BERTOLUCCI
- Writer(s)
- Bernardo BERTOLUCCI
- Cast
- Francesco BARILLI, Adriana ASTI, Allen MIDGETTE
- Producer(s)
- Mario BERNOCCHI (Iride Cinematografica)
- Synopsis
- Inspired by Sthendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma it's the story of Fabrizio (Francesco Barilli), a young man from the upper middle class pf Parma, torn between Marxist ideology and the comforts of his bourgeois background. Fabrizio is trapped in a bourgeois world, betrothed to a pious girl named Clelia (Cristina Pariset). A friend's suicide causes him to question his life, however, and he falls under the influence of a leftist professor who encourages Fabrizio's political awakening. He also begins an affair with his beautiful, emotional aunt Gina (Adriana Asti). But Gina can be cruel and impulsive, and should their love fail, Fabrizio's fragile new self might not survive. But eventually he chose to conform to traditional expectations and realizes that, for him, life will always be “before the revolution”.