Eleonora Rossi Drago, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard

Summer, 1943: wealthy youths in the Riccione district of Rimini, Italy, play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. The...( read more  read more... )n, 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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Unrated, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: Valerio Zurlini

Release Date: November 13, 1959

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DVD Release Date: May 30, 2006

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