Product Details

• Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Luciana Angiolillo, Renato Baldini, Riccardo Garrone
• Directors: Valerio Zurlini
• Writers: Valerio Zurlini, Enrico Medioli, Giorgio Prosperi, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Leonardo Benvenuti
• Format: Box set, Black & White, DVD, Original recording remastered, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Noshame
• DVD Release Date: May 30, 2006
• Run Time: 224 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000F48DAK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #167,738 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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Editorial Reviews

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.

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Impressive Italian masterworks, January 9, 2007

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No Shame is a recent label which has sought to bring Italian classics to the DVD format. These two films, "Violent Summer" and "Girl With a Suitcase", are two of the finest films made by the director Valerio Zurlini, and the transfers are crisp, with good English subtitles. The films are fascinating as studies of young men involved in complex situations, in the former, trying to discern the proper political action during the Fascist regime, in the latter, trying to help a girl abandoned by his older brother. These films are distinguished by exceptional performances and by lovely compositions. For those who enjoy Italian cinema, No Shame has been a wonderful addition to the DVD universe, and this is one of their best packages.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars preferable version, February 15, 2007

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Thomas H. Simpson (Evanston, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This film is available on dvd from various publishers. Of the three I have seen, this version is preferable, as it contains two scenes that are absent in the other versions.

5.0 out of 5 stars very good movie!, September 10, 2010

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