Being Twenty Explained

Being Twenty
Screenplay:	Fernando Di Leo
Story:	Fernando Di Leo
Starring:	Gloria Guida Lilli Carati Ray Lovelock Vincenzo Crocitti
Producer:	Vittorio Squillante
Director:	Fernando Di Leo
Music:	Franco Campanino
Cinematography:	Roberto Gerardi
Distributor:	Alpherat S.p.a.
Runtime:	94 minutes
Language:	Italian

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]}

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]

Cast

• Gloria Guida - Lia
• Lilli Carati - Tina
• Ray Lovelock - Rico
• Vincenzo Crocitti - Riccetto
• Giorgio Bracardi - Commissario Maresciallo Zambo
• Leopoldo Mastelloni - Arguinas
• Roberto Reale - Head of rapists
• Serena Bennato - Lesbian car driver
• Daniele Vargas - Prof. Affatati
• Vittorio Caprioli - Nazariota
• Licinia Lentini - Lesbian
• Daniela Doria - Patrizia
• Raul Lovecchio - Vice-commissioner (as Raoul Lo Vecchio)
• Fernando Cerulli - Retired civil servant

Release

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

Notes and References

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