The Swimming Pool (1969) [PG]

Release Date:
January 31, 1969

Original Title:
La Piscine

Alternate Titles:
Basen
Bassängen
Het zwembad
I pisina
La Piscine
La piscina
Piscina
Svømmebassenget
The Sinners
Ubistvo u bazenu
Vaarallinen loma
Η πισίνα
Басейн

Genres:
Drama | Thriller

Production Companies:
Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie
Tritone Cinematografica

Production Countries:
France | Italy

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 18  FR: 16  NL: 6  US: PG 

Runtime: 123

The most dangerous love-game ever played.

Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game.

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Assistant Camera:
Claude Bourgoin
Jean-Claude Bourgoin

Assistant Director:
Jean Mylonas
Michele Sennet

Camera Operator:
Jean Chiabaut
Jean-Jacques Tarbès

Costume Design:
André Courrèges

Director:
Jacques Deray

Director of Photography:
Jean-Jacques Tarbès

Editor:
Paul Cayatte

Executive Producer:
Gérard Beytout

Hairstylist:
Mariel Bernard

Makeup Artist:
Fernande Hugi

Original Music Composer:
Michel Legrand

Producer:
René Pignières

Production Design:
Paul Laffargue

Screenstory:
Alain Page

Sound:
René Longuet

Special Effects:
Jean Fouchet

Writer:
Jean-Claude Carrière
Jacques Deray

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