Sunflower poster
Director Vittorio De Sica
Screenplay Tonino Guerra, Cesare Zavattini, Giorgi Mdivani

Sunflower

Original Title: I girasoli

Tagline: A woman born for love. A man born to love her. A timeless moment in a world gone mad.

Release Date: 1970-03-14

Duration: 109 minutes

Synopsis

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?

Casting

  • Sophia Loren
    Giovanna
  • Marcello Mastroianni
    Antonio
  • Silvano Tranquilli
    L'operaio italiano
  • Marisa Traversi
    Donna stazione
  • Gunārs Cilinskis
    Funzionario russo
  • Ludmila Savelyeva
    Mascia
  • Alla Budnitskaya
    Uncredited
  • Glauco Onorato
    Il reduce
  • Germano Longo
    Ettore
  • Pippo Starnazza