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One Deadly Summer

Released: May 11, 1983 (1983)

Runtime: 130 minutes

Genres: Mystery, Drama, Crime

In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?

Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)

  • Suzanne Flon as Nine, aka 'Cognata'

    Age at release: 65

  • Jean Gaven as Leballech, boss of the sawmill

    Age at release: 61

  • Roger Carel as Henri, aka 'Henri IV', owner of Pin-Pon

    Age at release: 55

  • Jenny Clève as Mrs. Montecciari, Pin-Pon's Mother

    Age at release: 53

  • Maria Machado as Paula Wieck Devigne, aka 'Eva Braun', Eliane's mother

    Age at release: 45

  • Alain Souchon as Fiorimonto Montecciari, aka 'Pin-Pon'

    Age at release: 38

  • Evelyne Didi as Miss Dieu, aka 'Calamité', schoolmistress of Eliane

    Age at release: 34

  • Isabelle Adjani as Eliane Wieck, aka 'Elle'

    Age at release: 27

  • François Cluzet as Mickey, brother of Pin-Pon

    Age at release: 27

  • Manuel Gélin as Boubou, brother of Pin-Pon

    Age at release: 24

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