

“Italy is the place where they've made an art of everything - especially love!”
As Fabrizio contemplates joining the Communist Party, he breaks off his planned marriage to a bourgeois woman and becomes incestuously involved with his alluring aunt.
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
User score
125 votes

Released
May 13, 1964
1h 51m
Italian

Adriana Asti
Gina

Francesco Barilli
Fabrizio

Allen Midgette
Agostino

Morando Morandini
Cesare
Cristina Pariset
Clelia
Cecrope Barilli
Puck
Evelina Alpi
Evelina

Gianni Amico
Amico
Goliardo Padova
The Painter
Guido Fanti
Enore
Enrico Salvatore
Priest
Amelia Bordi
Fabrizio's Mother
Domenico Alpi
Fabrizio's Father
Antonio Maghenzani
Fabrizio's Brother
Ida Pellegri
Clelia's Mother
Iole Lunardi
The Grandmother