Sunflower

Sunflower

109 mins | Drama, War | March 14, 1970

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?

Sunflower

109 mins | Drama, War | March 14, 1970

Sunflower
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?
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Mosfilm, Les Films Concordia, Compagnia Cinematografica Champion
Original title I girasoli
Directors Franca Invernizzi, Paolo Serbandini, Luigia Alessandri, Andrei Konchalovsky, Vittorio De Sica
Writers Giorgi Mdivani, Tonino Guerra, Cesare Zavattini

Cast

Sophia Loren

as Giovanna

Ludmila Savelyeva

as Mascia

Galina Andreyeva

as Valentina

Anna Carena

as Madre Antonio

Germano Longo

as Ettore

Glauco Onorato

as Il reduce

Silvano Tranquilli

as L'operaio italiano

Marisa Traversi

as Donna stazione

Gunārs Cilinskis

as Funzionario russo

Gianni Bortolotto

as Italian official

Oleg Fyodorov

as Young Russian worker (uncredited)

Alla Budnitskaya

as Uncredited

Nadezhda Cherednichenko

as Contadina russa (as Nadja Cerednicenko)