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Violent Summer

Violent Summer

Nov 13, 1959 1h 34m
7.2
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Synopsis

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?

Title Violent Summer
Companies Société Générale de Cinématographie (S.G.C.), Titanus
Countries France, Italy
Keywords summer, older woman younger man relationship