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Release Date:
October 31, 1957
Original Title:
This Angry Age
Alternate Titles:
Barrage contre le Pacifique
The Sea Wall
This Bitter Earth
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Columbia Pictures
DDL Cinematografica
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR
Runtime: 105
Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed mother. Their mother attempts to exert a hold on her children by involving them in the family's run-down rice plantation. However the siblings seek liberation, and look for this in their romantic lives. Suzanne becomes involved with Michael and Joseph finds a love interest in Claude.
Art Direction:
Mario Chiari
Costume Design:
Maria De Matteis
Director:
René Clément
Director of Photography:
Otello Martelli
Editor:
Leo Catozzo
Novel:
Marguerite Duras
Original Music Composer:
Nino Rota
Producer:
Dino De Laurentiis
Screenplay:
René Clément
Diego Fabbri
Set Decoration:
Piero Gherardi
Writer:
Irwin Shaw
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