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Release Date:
13 November 1959 (Italy) more
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Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli... more | add synopsis
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3 wins more
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brilliant, old-fashioned melodrama more (6 total)

Cast

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Eleonora Rossi Drago ... Roberta Parmesan
Jean-Louis Trintignant ... Carlo Caremoli
Jacqueline Sassard ... Rosanna
Cathia Caro ... Gemma
Lilla Brignone ... Roberta's Mother
Raf Mattioli ... Giulio
Enrico Maria Salerno ... Ettore Caremoli - Carlo's Father
Federica Ranchi ... Maddalena
Giampiero Littera ... Daniele
Bruno Carotenuto ... Giulio
Tina Gloriani ... Emma
Nadia Gray
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Also Known As:
Été violent (France)
Violent Summer (USA)
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Runtime:
100 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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brilliant, old-fashioned melodrama, 24 March 2001
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Author: Robert Kennedy from USA

Jean-Louis Trintignat plays the draft-dodging son of a powerful Nazi in 1943 Italy, in a prelude to Bertolucci's "The Conformist," who falls in love with an older war widow, in an absolutely brilliant performance by Eleonora Rossi Drago, (what else has she ever been in?) featuring a brilliantly choreographed sequence to the song "Temptation," reminding me of Fassbinder's "The Bitter Tears of Petra Van Kant," this is one of the better scenes one is ever likely to see in all of cinema where the lovers dance and fall in love around a nude male statue oblivious to the war raging outside, similar to Oshima's "In the Realm of the Senses," there is an extraordinary pacing to the film, an intense love affair, reminiscent of Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in Hitchcock's "Notorious," this is a beautifully written, old-fashioned melodrama, the likes of which we just don't see any more.

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