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| Directed by | Valerio Zurlini |
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| Story by | Valerio Zurlini |
| Starring | Alain Delon Giancarlo Giannini Sonia Petrovna Renato Salvatori Alida Valli Adalberto Maria Merli Salvo Randone Lea Massari |
| Cinematography | Dario Di Palma |
| Edited by | Mario Morra |
| Music by | Mario Nascimbene |
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| Distributed by | Titanus |
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Running time | 131 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
| Box office | 1,094,300 admissions (Italy)[1] |
Indian Summer (Italian: La prima notte di quiete) is a 1972 Italian romantic drama film directed by Valerio Zurlini and starring Alain Delon, Sonia Petrovna, Renato Salvatori, Alida Valli, Adalberto Maria Merli, Salvo Randone and Lea Massari. The version released in France and West Germany runs less than the Italian cut.
The film tells the story of a gifted but restless young man who cannot live up to the high traditions of his family and survives in obscurity, taking casual teaching jobs and living in a loveless partnership with a depressed woman. His aimless existence reaches a crisis point when he falls for one of his pupils, a beautiful but badly damaged girl.
Despite the film receiving positive reviews from critics,[2] it was a commercial failure.
- ^ "Le professeur (La prima notte di quiete)". Box Office Story (in French). Retrieved 18 April 2021.
- ^ Rees-Roberts 2015, p. 147.