Attractive teenager Sergia usually hangs out with her older sister and her circle of mature friends. For a change, she is convinced by two teenage male friends to go for a beach vacation. Their main motive is to try to win her affection and get to sleep with her. Tragedy soon follows when the love triangle unravels.
Acting
Catherine Spaak's luminous, devastating debut at nineteen.
Cinematography
Bleached Adriatic beaches that promise everything and deliver nothing.
Direction
Vancini's surgical restraint lets horror bloom slowly.
Director
Florestano Vancini
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Italy's 1960s 'teen drama' wave that treated adolescent sexuality with rare seriousness, unlike American beach party films of the same era.
Spaak and Capucci married in real life shortly after filming — their on-screen chemistry was, shall we say, method.
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