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?

Genre:

Drama, Romance, War

Duration:

96 min

Actor:

Eleonora Rossi Drago, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard

Quality:

HD

Director:

Valerio Zurlini

Release:

1959

Country:

France, Italy

IMDb:

7.2