Violent Summer

7.2

Italy

Drama Romance War

96 min

1959

Eleonora Rossi Drago Nadia Gray Enrico Maria Salerno Tina Gloriani Bruno Carotenuto Giampiero Littera Federica Ranchi Raf Mattioli Lilla Brignone Cathia Caro Jacqueline Sassard Jean-Louis Trintignant Xenia Valderi

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?