The Beautiful Summer (1974)
La bellissima estate
A mother keeps making excuses for why her son's father has not returned home. Jon Marco, just celebrating his ninth birthday, concludes his parents have separated and develops a plan to place himself in dad's care. Along with a new friend they run away to Milan to search for Marco's father. Once executed, our little hero learns the truth about his famous race-car driving father. Can mom and his pals help him deal with the trauma?
- Date of release
- 1974-11-20
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Sergio Martino
Casting
- Senta Berger — Manuela
- John Richardson — Vittorio
- Alesssandro Cocco — Marco
- Caterina Boratto — The Princess
- Mario Erpichini — Giorgio Savona
- Renzo Marignano — Pietro - the chauffeur
- Duilio Cruciani — Marco
- Brizio Montinaro — Teacher
- Sabina Gaddi — Olga
- Gildo Di Marco — Giuseppe
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