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Violent Summer (1959)

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?

Directed by Valerio Zurlini

Screenplay by Valerio Zurlini

DETAILS

RUNTIME 1h 36min GENRES Drama, Romance, War STUDIOS Société Générale de Cinématographie (S.G.C.), Titanus COUNTRIES France, Italy LANGUAGES Italiano More Details at TMDB

CAST

Eleonora Rossi Drago Roberta Parmesan

Jean-Louis Trintignant Carlo Caremoli

Jacqueline Sassard Rosanna

Cathia Caro Serena

Lilla Brignone La madre di Roberta