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An Oscar nominee for Best Score (Henry Mancini), SUNFLOWER is a grandly emotional melodrama featuring a stunning performance from Sophia Loren. In another of the actress's great collaborations with director Vittorio De Sica (THE BICYCLE THIEF), 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. Making the grueling overland journey years after the end of the war, she tracks Antonio down and finds him a changed man. This heart-wrenching reunion will forever alter the course of their lives.
Original Release
03/14/1970
US Release
09/24/1970
Cast
Name | Character |
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Sophia Loren | Giovanna |
Marcello Mastroianni | Antonio |
Lyudmila Saveleva | Mascia |
Galina Andreeva | Valentina / Valentina Ivanovna - the Soviet official |
Anna Carena | La madre di Antonio / Madre Antonio |
Nadya Serednichenko | La contadina russa |
Germano Longo | Ettore |
Glauco Onorato | Il reduce |
Silvano Tranquilli | L'operaio italiano |
Gunārs Cilinskis | Il funzionario russo / Funzionario russo |
Directors
Writers
Tonino Guerra, Cesare Zavattini, Giorgi Mdivani
Cast
Name | Character |
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Sophia Loren | Giovanna |
Marcello Mastroianni | Antonio |
Lyudmila Saveleva | Mascia |
Galina Andreeva | Valentina / Valentina Ivanovna - the Soviet official |
Anna Carena | La madre di Antonio / Madre Antonio |
Nadya Serednichenko | La contadina russa |
Germano Longo | Ettore |
Glauco Onorato | Il reduce |
Silvano Tranquilli | L'operaio italiano |
Gunārs Cilinskis | Il funzionario russo / Funzionario russo |
Giorgio Basso | |
Gianni Bortolotto | Italian official |
Umberto Di Grazia | |
Giuliano Girardi | |
Dino Peretti | |
Pippo Starnazza | Man of Enquiry Office |
Carlo Ponti Jr. | Giovanna's Baby |
Mariya Sapozhnikova | Passerby |
Alla Budnitskaya | Uncredited |
Anatoli Kornilov | Donna stazione / La donna alla stazione |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Joseph E. Levine | Executive Producer |
Arthur Cohn | Producer |
Carlo Ponti | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1971 | Oscar | Best Music, Original Score | Nominated |