Violent Summer

Violent Summer — Plot

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?

• Release date
• November 13, 1959
• Runtime
• 96 min
• Genres
• Drama, Romance, War
• Director
• Valerio Zurlini

Violent Summer — Cast

Eleonora Rossi Drago Roberta Parmesan Jean-Louis Trintignant Carlo Caremoli Jacqueline Sassard Rosanna Cathia Caro Serena Lilla Brignone La madre di Roberta Raf Mattioli Giorgio Federica Ranchi Maddalena Giampiero Littera Daniele