Violent Summer
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- Runtime
- 94 mins
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?
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?
Cast
- Eleonora Rossi Drago
- Jean-Louis Trintignant
- Jacqueline Sassard
- Cathia Caro
- Lilla Brignone
- Raf Mattioli
- Federica Ranchi
- Giampiero Littera
- Bruno Carotenuto
- Tina Gloriani
- Enrico Maria Salerno
- Nadia Gray
- Xenia Valderi
Director
- Valerio Zurlini
Producers
- Goffredo Lombardo
Screenwriter
- Valerio Zurlini
