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
Crew
Bernardo Bertolucci
Director, Screenplay, Story
Gianni Amico
Co-Writer, First Assistant Director
Roberto Perpignani
Editor
Aldo Scavarda
Director of Photography
Giorgio Maulini
Second Assistant Director
Arnaldo Bagnasco
Second Assistant Director
Mario Bernocchi
Producer
Angelo Canevari
Production Design
Vittorio Cafiero
Production Design
Camillo Bazzoni
Camera Operator
Vittorio Storaro
Assistant Camera
Federico Forquet
Costume Design
Michele Trimarchi
Makeup Artist
Otello Flusi
Sound Recordist
Romano Pampaloni
Sound
Ennio Morricone
Original Music Composer
Gino Paoli
Original Music Composer
Orlando Dolci
Key Grip
Tullio Marini
Gaffer
Rodolfo Martello
Unit Manager
Franco Ferrara
Conductor
Francesco De Giuli
Production Secretary
