Sunflower (1970)
Overview
After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover?
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | it |
| Popularity | 3.9959 |
Directed By
Vittorio De Sica
Crew
Carlo Ponti
Tonino Guerra
Giuseppe Rotunno
Adriana Novelli
Cesare Zavattini
Vittorio De Sica
Arthur Cohn
Henry Mancini
Marisa Letti
Tonino Guerra
Cesare Zavattini
Jone Tuzi
Luisa Alessandri
Aldo Santarelli
Enzo Nigro
Piero Servo
Vincenzo Raimondi
Massimo Di Venanzo
Paolo Serbandini
Stefano Pegoraro
Franco Di Mauro
Elio Manni
Giuliano Grasselli
Bruno Altissimi
Maria Teresa Bartolelli
Berta Betti
Giuseppina Delli Carpini
Rodolfo Bramucci
Adriana Masseroni
Marisa Fraticelli
Renato Cadueri
Mario Van Riel
Carlo Palmieri
Alvaro Orsini
Piero Poletto
Nadia Vitali
Carla Zamponi
Giantito Burchiellaro
Giancarlo Ferrando
Giuseppe Maccari
Mazzini Salvatori
Franca Invernizzi
Ada Palombi
Giuseppe Annunziata
Joseph E. Levine
Enrico Sabbatini
Gianni Cecchin
Giorgi Mdivani
TOP CAST
Sophia Loren
Giovanna
Marcello Mastroianni
Antonio
Ludmila Savelyeva
Mascia
Galina Andreeva
Valentina
Anna Carena
Madre Antonio
Germano Longo
Ettore
Glauco Onorato
Il reduce
Silvano Tranquilli
L'operaio italiano
Marisa Traversi
Donna stazione
Gunārs Cilinskis
Funzionario russo
Gianni Bortolotto
Italian official
Oleg Fyodorov
Young Russian worker (uncredited)
Alla Budnitskaya
Uncredited
Nadezhda Cherednichenko
Contadina russa (as Nadja Cerednicenko)
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