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.
Unfortunately the movie Before the Revolution is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Directing | Bernardo Bertolucci | Director |
| Writing | Bernardo Bertolucci | Story |
| Camera | Aldo Scavarda | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Roberto Perpignani | Editor |
| Writing | Bernardo Bertolucci | Screenplay |
| Sound | Gino Paoli | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Ennio Morricone | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Franco Ferrara | Conductor |
| Directing | Gianni Amico | First Assistant Director |
| Writing | Gianni Amico | Co-Writer |
| Camera | Camillo Bazzoni | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Vittorio Storaro | Assistant Camera |
| Directing | Arnaldo Bagnasco | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | Giorgio Maulini | Second Assistant Director |
| Production | Rodolfo Martello | Unit Manager |
| Production | Francesco De Giuli | Production Secretary |
| Costume & Make-Up | Michele Trimarchi | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Romano Pampaloni | Sound |
| Sound | Otello Flusi | Sound Recordist |
| Camera | Orlando Dolci | Key Grip |
| Lighting | Tullio Marini | Gaffer |
| Production | Mario Bernocchi | Producer |
| Art | Vittorio Cafiero | Production Design |
| Art | Angelo Canevari | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Federico Forquet | Costume Design |
