Actors/Artists:  Claudia Cardinale, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, Enrico Maria Salerno, Corrado Pani

Director:  Valerio Zurlini

Features:

• Violent Summer
• Introduction and exclusive interviews featuring assistant director Florestano Vancini, lyricist Riccardo Pazzaglia, actress Eleonora Giorgi and director Giuliano Montaldo.
• Poster and Still Gallery
• Girl With A Suitcase
• Introduction and exclusive interviews featuring assistant director Piero Schivazappa, screenwriter Piero De Bernardi, Bruno Torri (President of SNCCI Italian Film Critics Guild), producer Mario Gallo.
• The Restoration of Girl With A Suitcase
• Poster and Still Gallery

Aspect Ratio:

Widescreen (Anamorphic)

Audio:

Italian: Mono

Subtitles:   English, French

DC-DVD Price: £20.75

This deluxe 2-DVD collector's edition from NoShame Films offers a pair of early works by Valerio Zurlini, one of the great-unsung maestri of Italian cinema.

War-torn Italy is the setting for Violent Summer. In the final days of Mussolini's reign, Carlo (Jean-Louis Trintignant, The Desert Of The Tartars), the hedonistic son of a high-ranking Fascist (Enrico Maria Salerno, The Bird With The Crystal Plumage) falls in love with a Navy officer's widow (Eleonora Rossi Drago). Fleeing the wrath of the Anti-Fascists for the safety of Southern Italy, the lovers are stranded by the masses of the dead and dying and must confront for the first time the horrors of war previously kept from them by a life of privilege.

In Girl With A Suitcase, 16-year-old Lorenzo (The Desert Of The Tartars' Jacques Perrin) falls in love with cabaret singer Aida (Claudia Cardinale), spurned by his playboy brother Marcello (Corrado Pani, Secrets Of A Call Girl). Secreting the sensuous Aida in a hotel and going into debt to feed and clothe her, Lorenzo can only stand by as Aida attracts a stream of new suitors and learns the hard truth that sometimes pure love is not enough.