# Violent Summer (1959) — on MUBI?

- **Director:** Valerio Zurlini
- **Cast:** Eleonora Rossi Drago, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard, Cathia Caro, Lilla Brignone
- **Genres:** Drama, War, Romance
- **Runtime:** 98 min
- **MUBI rating:** 7.6/10 (591 ratings)

## Available on MUBI in
- 🇮🇹 Italy — until February 28

## Also streaming on
- 🇦🇹 Austria: Netflix
- 🇨🇦 Canada: Amazon Prime Video
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland: Netflix
- 🇨🇿 Czechia: Netflix
- 🇩🇪 Germany: Netflix
- 🇩🇰 Denmark: Netflix
- 🇫🇮 Finland: Netflix
- 🇬🇷 Greece: Netflix
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands: Netflix
- 🇳🇴 Norway: Netflix
- 🇵🇱 Poland: Netflix
- 🇷🇴 Romania: Netflix
- 🇸🇪 Sweden: Netflix
- 🇹🇷 Turkey: Netflix
- 🇺🇸 USA: Amazon Prime Video

## Synopsis
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?

Watch on MUBI: https://mubi.com/films/violent-summer

Page: https://mubimap.com/film/violent-summer/ · Data: MUBI catalog (42 countries) + TMDB · Updated 2026-09-10