{{Short description|1971 drama film}} {{Infobox film | image = Summer Affair poster.jpg | director = Giorgio Stegani | screenplay = Giorgio Stegani | starring = Ornella Muti <br> {{Interlanguage link|Alessio Orano|it}} | music = Gianni Marchetti | cinematography = Sergio D'Offizi | editing = Maurizio Tedesco <br>Giuseppe Baghdighian | producer = Gianni Minervini <br>Nicolò Pomilia | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1971}} | country = | language = Italian | budget = }} '''''Summer Affair''''' ({{Langx|it|Il sole nella pelle}}), also known as '''''Sun on the Skin''''', is a 1971 Italian romantic drama film written and directed by Giorgio Stegani and starring Ornella Muti.
== Plot == {{no plot|date=October 2025}}
== Cast ==
*Ornella Muti as Lisa *Alessio Orano as Robert *Luigi Pistilli as Lo Versi *Chris Avram as Marco * Stella Carnacina as Marina Carracelli * Giulio Baraghini as Carabinieri Marshal
==Production == The film was shot in the Ponza island.<ref>{{cite news |title=Segnocinema |url=https://www.google.it/books/edition/Segnocinema/fUEIAQAAMAAJ?hl=it&gbpv=1&bsq=sole+nella+pelle+stegani+ornella+muti+%22ponza%22&dq=sole+nella+pelle+stegani+ornella+muti+%22ponza%22&printsec=frontcover |access-date=22 April 2026 |volume=53 |publisher=Cineforum di Vicenza |date=1992 |page=21 |language=it}}</ref> It was produced by Stefano Film.<ref name="70-79 z">{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film |chapter=Il sole sulla pelle |publisher=Gremese|date= 1991|page=294|isbn=8876059695}}</ref> The script took inspiration from a real news story.<ref name=nsdh>{{cite news |title=Per un pugno di belle donne |work=Stampa Sera |issue=141 |date=22 June 1971 |page=9}}</ref> The main theme of the soundtrack by Gianni Marchetti was reused in ''Emanuelle's Revenge''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gomarasca |first1=Manlio |url= |title=La piccola cineteca degli orrori |last2=Pulici |first2=Davide |date= 2013 |publisher=Bureau |isbn=978-88-586-5486-6 |page=201 |language=it |chapter=Il sole sulla pelle |chapter-url=https://www.google.it/books/edition/La_piccola_cineteca_degli_orrori/TzPMCQAAQBAJ?hl=it&gbpv=1&dq=sole+nella+pelle+stegani+ornella+muti+%22ponza%22&pg=PA201&printsec=frontcover}}</ref>
==Release == The film was released domestically in June 1971.<ref name="nsdh" /><ref name="nhh" /> In 2025, MVD Entertainment Group released it on Blu-ray in a 2K transfer.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bergeson |first1=Samantha |title=Sean Baker Celebrates the ‘Electric’ Legacy of Italian Star Ornella Muti with Blu-ray Restoration Collection |url=https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/sean-baker-ornella-muti-blu-ray-collection-1235137380/ |access-date=22 April 2026 |work=IndieWire |date=9 July 2025}}</ref>
==Reception == Paolo Mereghetti panned the film, describing it as "a mediocre fumetto, sprinkled with awkward references to current affairs and sparse nudity."<ref name="nng">{{Cite book |last=Mereghetti |first=Paolo |author-link=Paolo Mereghetti |title=Il Mereghetti 2011 |date=2010 |publisher=Baldini Castoldi Dalai |isbn=978-88-6073-626-0 |volume=2 |chapter=Sole sulla pelle, Il }}</ref> A ''La Stampa'' contemporary review paired it to ''Love Story'', and noted "Stegani leans honestly on sentimentality, without exploring the context in which the story unfolds and without demanding much from the two leads in terms of performance".<ref>{{cite news |author1=vice |title=Un pianista con figlia al servizio di Satana |url=http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,6/articleid,0137_01_1971_0143_0006_4664605/ |access-date=22 April 2026 |work=La Stampa|issue=143 |date=23 June 1971 |page=6}}</ref> The ''Corriere della Sera'''s critic Leonardo Autera argued that the film "pretends to take an interest in important issues [...] but in reality it neither can nor wants to touch on them", as "it's just a pretext for a rather banal love story."<ref name=nhh>{{cite news |author1=Autera, Leonardo |title=Rassegna cinematografica |work=Corriere della Sera|date=20 August 1971 |page=12}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * {{IMDb title}} {{Authority control}} Category:1971 films Category:1971 romantic drama films Category:Italian romantic drama films Category:Films directed by Giorgio Stegani Category:Films set in Lazio