What is The Swimming Pool / One Deadly Summer about?

THE SWIMMING POOL (LA PISCINE), 1969, SNC, 120 min. Dir. Jacques Deray. Writer Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) and journalist Marianne (Romy Schneider) are having an affair in St. Tropez when interrupted by a visit from Marianne's former lover, Harry. Harry has also brought along his fatally attractive daughter, Penelope (Jane Birkin). Hormones rage and sparks fly, and one of the four ends up dead, accidentally drowned after a fight. In French with English subtitles. ONE DEADLY SUMMER (L'ETE MEURTRIER) 1983, Universal, 130 min. Beautiful, but emotionally unstable Isabelle Adjani is Eliane, the daughter of a single German mother (Maria Machado) 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, who must logically be her father. When she finds him, she is determined to kill him. In French with English subtitles.

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What is The Swimming Pool / One Deadly Summer about?: THE SWIMMING POOL (LA PISCINE), 1969, SNC, 120 min. Dir. Jacques Deray. Writer Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) and journalist Marianne (Romy Schneider) are having an affair in St. Tropez when interrupted by a visit from Marianne's former lover, Harry. Harry has also brought along his fatally attractive daughter, Penelope (Jane Birkin). Hormones rage and sparks fly, and one of the four ends up dead, accidentally drowned after a fight. In French with English subtitles.
ONE DEADLY SUMMER (L'ETE MEURTRIER) 1983, Universal, 130 min. Beautiful, but emotionally unstable Isabelle Adjani is Eliane, the daughter of a single German mother (Maria Machado) 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, who must logically be her father. When she finds him, she is determined to kill him. In French with English subtitles.