Violent Summer

Violent Summer (1959)

Estate violenta

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?

Date of release
1959-11-13
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (86)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Drama, Romance, War
Director
Valerio Zurlini

Casting

Interesting facts

Violent Summer is a 1959 Italian–French drama film directed by Valerio Zurlini, his second feature film. Set in the Italian seaside resort of Riccione in July 1943, it depicts a love affair between a prominent Fascist's young draft-dodging son, portrayed by Jean-Louis Trintignant, and a naval officer's widow, older than he, portrayed by Eleonora Rossi Drago.

Production

Regarding the origins of the subject of his film, director Valerio Zurlini wrote:"I chose the theme of the 1940s because it was the theme of my youth. The film, however, is not autobiographical at all. Every now and then I'm accused of writing autobiography, but I believe—as Thomas Mann said—that autobiography is a writer's childhood disorder, and so I try desperately to avoid it.

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