One Deadly Summer

May 11, 1983

2h 10m

★ 6.9

Overview

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?

Genres

Mystery

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

TF1 Films Production

C.A.P.A.C.

SNC

CAPAC

One Deadly Summer Trailers

Cast

Eliane Wieck, aka 'Elle'

Isabelle Adjani

Fiorimonto Montecciari, aka 'Pin-Pon'

Alain Souchon

Nine, aka 'Cognata'

Suzanne Flon

Mrs. Montecciari, Pin-Pon's Mother

Jenny Clève

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

Maria Machado

Miss Dieu, aka 'Calamité', schoolmistress of Eliane

Evelyne Didi

Leballech, boss of the sawmill

Jean Gaven

Mickey, brother of Pin-Pon

François Cluzet

Boubou, brother of Pin-Pon

Manuel Gélin

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

Roger Carel

Gabriel Devigne, Eliane's father

Michel Galabru

Ms. Tussaud, nurse

Marie-Pierre Casey

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