What is One Deadly Summer / Riptide about?

Name: One Deadly Summer / Riptide
Genre: Action/Adventure,Drama

ONE DEADLY SUMMER (L’ETE MEURTRIER) 1983, Universal, 130 min. Dir. Jean Becker. Beautiful, but emotionally unstable Isabelle Adjani is Eliane, the daughter of a single German mother who was raped by returning soliders post-WWII. Adjani goes on an investigative quest to find the men and, specifically, the man responsible for impregnating her mother (Maria Machado) – the man who must logically be her father. And when she finds him, she is determined to kill him. In French, with English subtitles. RIPTIDE (UNE SI JOLIE PETITE PLAGE) 1948, 97 min. Dir. Yves Allegret. Former orphan, Gerard Philipe, returns to the lonely, beachside inn where he grew up, before his idealism was crushed and he sank into the depths of degradation, self-loathing and murder. Amidst an oppresive atmosphere of perpetual rainfall, Philipe goes through his last days and is dismayed to see a teenage boy who reminds him of himself. In French, with English subtitles.

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What is One Deadly Summer / Riptide about?: ONE DEADLY SUMMER (L’ETE MEURTRIER) 1983, Universal, 130 min. Dir. Jean Becker. Beautiful, but emotionally unstable Isabelle Adjani is Eliane, the daughter of a single German mother who was raped by returning soliders post-WWII. Adjani goes on an investigative quest to find the men and, specifically, the man responsible for impregnating her mother (Maria Machado) – the man who must logically be her father. And when she finds him, she is determined to kill him. In French, with English subtitles.
RIPTIDE (UNE SI JOLIE PETITE PLAGE) 1948, 97 min. Dir. Yves Allegret. Former orphan, Gerard Philipe, returns to the lonely, beachside inn where he grew up, before his idealism was crushed and he sank into the depths of degradation, self-loathing and murder. Amidst an oppresive atmosphere of perpetual rainfall, Philipe goes through his last days and is dismayed to see a teenage boy who reminds him of himself. In French, with English subtitles.