Violent Summer

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-11-13

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

100 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (730 Reviews)

Director:

Valerio Zurlini

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Eleonora Rossi Drago Jean-Louis Trintignant Lilla Brignone Raf Mattioli

Writer:

Valerio Zurlini (story)

Suso Cecchi D'Amico (screenplay)

Giorgio Prosperi (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. Then, on the beach, he meets Roberta, a war widow with a child. Roberta's mother warns Roberta to avoid Carlo, but to her, he seems attentive and to her daughter he is kind. Romance develops. Within a few weeks, Roberta is risking everything. Can there be a resolution between passion, on the one hand, and war, duty, and social expectation on the other?

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