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.
Stars: Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli, Allen Midgette, Morando Morandini, Cristina Pariset, Cecrope Barilli
Crew: Bernardo Bertolucci (Director), Bernardo Bertolucci (Story), Aldo Scavarda (Director of Photography), Roberto Perpignani (Editor), Bernardo Bertolucci (Screenplay), Gino Paoli (Original Music Composer)
Country: Italy
Language: Italiano
Studio: Iride Cinematografica
Runtime: 107 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: May 13, 1964
IMDb: 3.9
Keywords:revolution, communism
