Sunflower ( I girasoli ) ( Sun flower )

Sunflower (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: I girasoli
Alternate Title: Sun flower
Screened, competed or awarded at:
David Donatello Awards
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
104 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1970 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Soviet Union ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Vittorio De Sica

Written By:
Tonino Guerra
Giorgi Mdivani

Actors:
Sophia Loren ..... Giovanna
Marcello Mastroianni ..... Antonio
Lyudmila Savelyeva ..... Mascia
Galina Andreyeva ..... Valentina, Soviet official
Anna Carena ..... Antonio's Mother
Germano Longo ..... Ettore
Nadya Serednichenko ..... Woman in sunflower fields
Glauco Onorato ..... Returning soldier
Silvano Tranquilli ..... Italian worker in Russia
Marisa Traversi ..... Prostitute
Gunars Cilinskis ..... Russian Ministry Official
Carlo Ponti Jr. ..... Giovanna's Baby
Pippo Starnazza ..... Italian official
Dino Peretti
Giorgio Basso

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?

In Naples, in World War II, Giovanna has a torrid love affair with the soldier Antonio, who is ready to embark to Africa. Giovanna proposes that they get married in order to obtain a twelve day pass. Then Antonio pretends that he is insane and he is sent to an asylum. However, the doctors discover the farce and they give Antonio an ultimatum: to go to the Russian front as volunteer instead of being sued. When Antonio is missing in action in Russia, Giovanna does not accept that he is dead. Years after the end of the war, Giovanna travels to Russia with a picture of Antonio to try and find him out in the countryside. When she finds a lead in a village, her hope becomes disappointment with truth about his disappearance.

An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia - like fifty thousand others during WWII.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 14 August, 2007.

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