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One Deadly Summer

1983 · 130 min Mystery Drama Crime
6.9 / 10 · TMDB

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?

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📋 Film Details

Original Title L'Été meurtrier
Year 1983
Country France
Genre Mystery, Drama, Crime
Director Jean Becker
Runtime 130 min.
Rating TMDB: 6.9/10 (226 votes)

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🎬 MovieFinder's Take

This is quietly operating cinema. No big events, no crisis turns — just people and how they live through what happens to them.

Strengths: atmosphere, actors, accuracy of detail. Weaknesses: the pace isn't for everyone, the ending may feel unresolved.

For people who watch films for feeling, not entertainment.

Director: Jean Becker

— MovieFinder Editorial

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Viewing atmosphere: An evening when your mind is at peace. With someone you can sit in silence with after. Wine or tea.

🎭 Cast

Isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Adjani

Eliane Wieck, aka 'Elle'

Alain Souchon

Alain Souchon

Fiorimonto Montecciari, aka 'Pin-Pon'

Suzanne Flon

Suzanne Flon

Nine, aka 'Cognata'

Jenny Clève

Jenny Clève

Mrs. Montecciari, Pin-Pon's Mother

Maria Machado

Maria Machado

Paula Wieck Devigne, aka 'Eva Braun', Eliane's mother

Evelyne Didi

Evelyne Didi

Miss Dieu, aka 'Calamité', schoolmistress of Eliane

Jean Gaven

Jean Gaven

Leballech, boss of the sawmill

François Cluzet

François Cluzet

Mickey, brother of Pin-Pon

Manuel Gélin

Manuel Gélin

Boubou, brother of Pin-Pon

Roger Carel

Roger Carel

Henri, aka 'Henri IV', owner of Pin-Pon

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