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One Deadly Summer (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?

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Drama
Crime

Top billed cast

Isabelle AdjaniEliane Wieck, aka 'Elle'
Alain SouchonFiorimonto Montecciari, aka 'Pin-Pon'
Suzanne FlonNine, aka 'Cognata'
Jenny ClèveMrs. Montecciari, Pin-Pon's Mother
Maria MachadoPaula Wieck Devigne, aka 'Eva Braun', Eliane's mother
Evelyne DidiMiss Dieu, aka 'Calamité', schoolmistress of Eliane
Jean GavenLeballech, boss of the sawmill
François CluzetMickey, brother of Pin-Pon
Manuel GélinBoubou, brother of Pin-Pon
Roger CarelHenri, aka 'Henri IV', owner of Pin-Pon

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