The film’s main location is Riccione (province of Rimini), where a group of friends spends a carefree summer as if there was no war. As they enjoy the sun and the sea on the beach by piazzale Roma, the young friends and other swimmers are surprised by an enemy warplane flying low above them. This is when Carlo (Jean Louis Trintignant) meets Roberta (Eleonora Rossi Drago), the thirty-year-old widow of a war hero who lives with her mother and daughter in a villa in via Milano: today the villa has been replaced by an apartment building and can be found near the Church of Santa Maria Mater Admirabilis.
The pair begin to spend time together: they go to San Marino which can be seen in glimpses: piazza della Libertà and piazzale Domus Plebis where the Basilica of San Marino with its neo-classical colonnade is located, and to the cinema (Teatro Dante). The end of the Fascist regime brings many changes: the people besiege the casa del fascio, the present-day Palazzo del Turismo in via Virgilio.
The film’s main location is Riccione (province of Rimini), where a group of friends spends a carefree summer as if there was no war. As they enjoy the sun and the sea on the beach by piazzale Roma, the young friends and other swimmers are surprised by an enemy warplane flying low above them. This is when Carlo (Jean Louis Trintignant) meets Roberta (Eleonora Rossi Drago), the thirty-year-old widow of a war hero who lives with her mother and daughter in a villa in via Milano: today the villa has been replaced by an apartment building and can be found near the Church of Santa Maria Mater Admirabilis.
The pair begin to spend time together: they go to San Marino which can be seen in glimpses: piazza della Libertà and piazzale Domus Plebis where the Basilica of San Marino with its neo-classical colonnade is located, and to the cinema (Teatro Dante). The end of the Fascist regime brings many changes: the people besiege the casa del fascio, the present-day Palazzo del Turismo in via Virgilio.
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Eleonora Rossi Drago, Jean-Louis Trintignant – Riccione
Copyright: ©Archivio fotografico Cineteca Nazionale, Roma. Selezione a cura di: Valentina Contessi, Elisabetta Chiarotti, Alessandro Andreini
Republic of San Marino
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Riccione
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Riccione
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Palazzo del Turismo, via Virgilio, Riccione
Titanus, Société Générale de Cinématographie
During the summer of 1943, Carlo, the twenty-year-old son of a Fascist official, joins his friends on holiday in Riccione where, in a carefree atmosphere, far removed from the difficulties of wartime Italy, he meets and falls in love with Roberta, a mother and war widow in her thirties.
