Sunflower (1970)
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?
Director:
Vittorio De Sica
Writers:
Tonino Guerra, Cesare Zavattini, Giorgi Mdivani.
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Sophia Loren as Giovanna |
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Marcello Mastroianni as Antonio |
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Ludmila Savelyeva as Mascia |
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Galina Andreeva as Valentina |
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Anna Carena as Madre Antonio |
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Germano Longo as Ettore |
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Glauco Onorato as Il reduce |
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Silvano Tranquilli as L'operaio italiano |
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Marisa Traversi as Donna stazione |
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Gunārs Cilinskis as Funzionario russo |
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Giorgio Basso as |
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Gianni Bortolotto as Italian official |
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Umberto Di Grazia as |
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Giuliano Girardi as |
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Dino Peretti as |
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Pippo Starnazza as |
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Oleg Fyodorov as Young Russian worker (uncredited) |
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Alla Budnitskaya as Uncredited |
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Nadezhda Cherednichenko as Contadina russa (as Nadja Cerednicenko) |
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Pyotr Kolbasin as |
| Production | Carlo Ponti | Producer |
| Production | Arthur Cohn | Producer |
| Directing | Vittorio De Sica | Director |
| Camera | Giuseppe Rotunno | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Henry Mancini | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Tonino Guerra | Screenplay |
| Writing | Cesare Zavattini | Screenplay |
| Editing | Adriana Novelli | Editor |
| Editing | Marisa Letti | Assistant Editor |
| Writing | Tonino Guerra | Story |
| Writing | Cesare Zavattini | Story |
| Production | Jone Tuzi | Line Producer |
| Directing | Luisa Alessandri | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Paolo Serbandini | First Assistant Director |
| Production | Bruno Altissimi | Unit Manager |
| Production | Stefano Pegoraro | Unit Manager |
| Production | Elio Manni | Unit Manager |
| Camera | Piero Servo | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Giuliano Grasselli | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Massimo Di Venanzo | Assistant Camera |
| Production | Aldo Santarelli | Production Secretary |
| Production | Enzo Nigro | Production Secretary |
| Production | Maria Teresa Bartolelli | Production Secretary |
| Production | Franco Di Mauro | Production Secretary |
| Production | Vincenzo Raimondi | Administration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Adriana Masseroni | Seamstress |
| Costume & Make-Up | Berta Betti | Seamstress |
| Costume & Make-Up | Giuseppina Delli Carpini | Seamstress |
| Lighting | Rodolfo Bramucci | Gaffer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Marisa Fraticelli | Hairstylist |
| Camera | Giuseppe Maccari | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Giancarlo Ferrando | Camera Operator |
| Directing | Franca Invernizzi | Script Supervisor |
| Sound | Carlo Palmieri | Sound |
| Sound | Alvaro Orsini | Sound |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nadia Vitali | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Giuseppe Annunziata | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ada Palombi | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Mario Van Riel | Makeup Artist |
| Editing | Carla Zamponi | Assistant Editor |
| Camera | Mazzini Salvatori | Key Grip |
| Sound | Renato Cadueri | Sound Mixer |
| Art | Piero Poletto | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Enrico Sabbatini | Costume Design |
| Art | Giantito Burchiellaro | Set Decoration |
| Production | Gianni Cecchin | Production Manager |
| Production | Joseph E. Levine | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Giorgi Mdivani | Screenplay |