Parma, 1962. Balancing between his Marxist ideology and his forced integration into the system, the twenty-year-old student, Fabrizio, is both repelled and attracted by his parents’ bourgeois way of life.
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Title: Before the Revolution / Prima della rivoluzione
Release Year: 1964
Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
Written by: Bernardo Bertolucci, Gianni Amico
Starring: Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 1 h 51 min
Size: 11,3 Gb
Video Codec: HEVC x265 10bit (Main10@L4) very slow preset
Video bitrate: Variable, 13 800 kbps average
Resolution: 1920x1036
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Framerate: 23.976 fps
Audio: Italian / FLAC / 1.0 / 618 kbps
Subtitles: English (SRT and PGS)
Source: Ripley's Home Video Blu-ray
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.
