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Violent Summer
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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Synopsis
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?
More about Violent Summer
Cast
Eleonora Rossi DragoRoberta Parmesan
Jean-Louis TrintignantCarlo Caremoli
Jacqueline SassardRosanna
Cathia CaroSerena
Lilla BrignoneLa madre di Roberta
Raf MattioliGiorgio
Federica RanchiMaddalena
Giampiero LitteraDanieleCredits
- Directed by
- Valerio Zurlini
- Written by
- Valerio Zurlini, Valerio Zurlini
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Italian
- Original title
- Estate violenta
Production
- Société Générale de Cinématographie (S.G.C.)France
TitanusItaly
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