Violent Summer poster

Movie · 1959

Violent Summer

Released 13 November 1959 More from 1959 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

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?

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Eleonora Rossi Drago
as Roberta Parmesan
34
Enrico Maria Salerno
as Ettore Caremoli - il padre di Carlo
33
Jacqueline Sassard
as Rosanna
19
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
15years between the oldest and youngest billed
34Eleonora Rossi Drago — oldest on the call sheet
19Jacqueline Sassard — youngest billed
29average age of the credited cast
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