Before the Revolution = Prima della rivoluzione
Barcode: 58954092
Call Number: V-ITA 207
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 130 min.
Date: 1964
System Requirements: PAL, Region 2
DVD Region: Region 2
Language: Italian
Creator: Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Description: 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.
Subjects: Drama, Romance
Collection: Language Resource Center