Sunflower
- Released on
- Runtime
- 109 mins
At the end of World War II, Giovanna, a war bride living near Milan refuses to accept that her husband, Antonio, missing on the Russian front, is dead. There's a flashback to their brief courtship near her hometown of Naples, his 12-day leave to marry her, ruses to keep from deployment, and the ultimate farewell. Some years after the war, still with no word from Antonio, Giovanna goes to Russia to find him, starting in the town near the winter battle when he disappeared. Armed with his photograph, what will she find?
At the end of World War II, Giovanna, a war bride living near Milan refuses to accept that her husband, Antonio, missing on the Russian front, is dead. There's a flashback to their brief courtship near her hometown of Naples, his 12-day leave to marry her, ruses to keep from deployment, and the ultimate farewell. Some years after the war, still with no word from Antonio, Giovanna goes to Russia to find him, starting in the town near the winter battle when he disappeared. Armed with his photograph, what will she find?
Cast
- Sophia Loren
- Marcello Mastroianni
- Ludmila Savelyeva
- Galina Andreeva
- Anna Carena
- Germano Longo
- Glauco Onorato
- Silvano Tranquilli
- Marisa Traversi
- Gunārs Cilinskis
- Giorgio Basso
- Gianni Bortolotto
- Umberto Di Grazia
- Giuliano Girardi
- Dino Peretti
- Pippo Starnazza
- Oleg Fyodorov
- Alla Budnitskaya
- Nadezhda Cherednichenko
- Pyotr Kolbasin
Director
- Vittorio De Sica
Producers
- Carlo Ponti
- Arthur Cohn
Screenwriter
- Tonino Guerra
- Cesare Zavattini
- Giorgi Mdivani
