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Sunflower (Italian: I girasoli) is a 1970 romantic war tragedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica. An international co-production of Italy, France, the Soviet Union and the United States, the film was shot in the Soviet Union; some scenes were filmed near Moscow, while others near Poltava, a regional center in Ukraine.
Sep 24, 1970 · Sunflower: Directed by Vittorio De Sica. With Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Saveleva, Galina Andreeva. An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia during WWII.
- (4.5K)
- Drama, War
- Vittorio De Sica
- 1970-09-24
May 20, 2023 · Climaxed by a brutal rape scene, the film won widespread acclaim, and Loren's gut-wrenching performance earned her an Academy Award, the first foreign-language performer to win the Best Actress prize. She was also so honored at the Cannes Film Festival.
- 4105 min
An Italian bride (Sophia Loren) finds her long-lost soldier husband (Marcello Mastroianni) living in Moscow with amnesia and a wife (Lyudmila Saveleva) and daughter.
- (39)
- Vittorio De Sica
- G
- Sophia Loren
Synopsis. Giovanna and Antonio have been married for only 12 days when World War II breaks out. Antonio is drafted into the army, but he tries to dodge the draft by pretending to be insane; military officials see through his scheme, however, and send him to the Russian front.
A grandly emotional melodrama featuring a stunning performance from Sophia Loren. Loren plays Giovanna, a steel-willed Italian woman on a desperate search to find her husband Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), who has gone missing on the WWII battlefields of Russia.
An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia during WWII. 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.
