One Deadly Summer

One Deadly Summer

130 mins | Drama, Mystery | May 11, 1983

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?

One Deadly Summer

130 mins | Drama, Mystery | May 11, 1983

One Deadly Summer
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?
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers TF1 Films Production, C.A.P.A.C., Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC)
Original title L'Été meurtrier
Directors Jean Becker
Writers Sébastien Japrisot

Cast

Isabelle Adjani

as Eliane Wieck, aka 'Elle'

Alain Souchon

as Fiorimonto Montecciari, aka 'Pin-Pon'

Suzanne Flon

as Nine, aka 'Cognata'

Jenny Clève

as Mrs. Montecciari, Pin-Pon's Mother

Maria Machado

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

Evelyne Didi

as Miss Dieu, aka 'Calamité', schoolmistress of Eliane

Jean Gaven

as Leballech, boss of the sawmill

François Cluzet

as Mickey, brother of Pin-Pon

Manuel Gélin

as Boubou, brother of Pin-Pon

Roger Carel

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

Michel Galabru

as Gabriel Devigne, Eliane's father

Marie-Pierre Casey

as Ms. Tussaud, nurse

Cécile Vassort

as Josette,wife of Henri IV

Edith Scob

as Doctor

Virginie Vignon

as Lou Lou Lou

Martin Lamotte

as Georges Massigne

Yves Afonso

as Rostollan

Raymond Meunier

as Mr. Brochard

Jacques Dynam

as Ferraldo, boss of transport company

Jacques Nolot

as Fiero

Patrice Melennec

as Pamier

Daniel Langlet

as Butler

Max Morel

as Touret, libidinous guy

Cynthia Sidney

as Ophthalmologist

Maïwenn

as Eliane, child

Catherine Le Couey

as Mrs. Brochard (uncredited)