Before the Revolution
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.
Cast
Adriana Asti
as Gina
Francesco Barilli
as Fabrizio
Allen Midgette
as Agostino
Morando Morandini
as Cesare
Cristina Pariset
as Clelia
Cecrope Barilli
as Puck
Evelina Alpi
as Evelina
Gianni Amico
as Amico
