Being Twenty

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Being Twenty
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Directed by Fernando Di Leo
Screenplay byFernando Di Leo
Story byFernando Di Leo
Produced byVittorio Squillante
Starring Gloria Guida
Lilli Carati
Ray Lovelock
Vincenzo Crocitti
Cinematography Roberto Gerardi
Music byFranco Campanino
Distributed byAlpherat S.p.a.
Release date
  • 14 July 1978 (1978-07-14)
Running time
94 minutes
LanguageItalian

Being Twenty (Italian : Avere vent'anni, also known as To Be Twenty) is a 1978 Italian erotic-drama film directed by Fernando Di Leo and starring Gloria Guida and Lilli Carati. [1] [2]

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Plot

Lia (Gloria Guida) and Tina (Lilli Carati) are two beautiful girls who meet and realize that they have a lot in common. They are both young, beautiful and pissed off, so they decide to hitchhike their way to Rome to find a commune where they can stay and live the life of free love... or so they think. Things don't go as they have planned though, and soon they become entangled with prostitution, the police and an aggressive gang. [3]

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Release

The film was released as a 2-Disc DVD by Raro Video on July 28, 2011.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN   8876059350.
  2. ↑ Roberto Curti (2006). Italia odia: il cinema poliziesco italiano. Lindau, 2006. ISBN   8871805860.
  3. ↑ Vari. Calibro 9. Il cinema di Fernando di Leo. Nocturno, 2004.


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