Sunflower

Synopsis

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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Cast

Sophia Loren

Giovanna

Marcello Mastroianni

Antonio

Ludmila Savelyeva

Mascia

Galina Andreeva

Valentina

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Anna Carena

Madre Antonio

Germano Longo

Ettore

Glauco Onorato

Il reduce

Silvano Tranquilli

L'operaio italiano

Marisa Traversi

Donna stazione

Gunārs Cilinskis

Funzionario russo

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Giorgio Basso

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Gianni Bortolotto

Italian official

Umberto Di Grazia

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Giuliano Girardi

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Dino Peretti

Pippo Starnazza

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Oleg Fyodorov

Young Russian worker (uncredited)

Alla Budnitskaya

Uncredited

Nadezhda Cherednichenko

Contadina russa (as Nadja Cerednicenko)

Pyotr Kolbasin

Crew

Art

• Piero Poletto Production Design
• Giantito Burchiellaro Set Decoration

Camera

• Giuseppe Rotunno Director of Photography
• Piero Servo Assistant Camera
• Massimo Di Venanzo Assistant Camera
• Giuliano Grasselli Assistant Camera
• Giancarlo Ferrando Camera Operator
• Giuseppe Maccari Camera Operator
• Mazzini Salvatori Key Grip

Costume & Make-Up

• Berta Betti Seamstress
• Giuseppina Delli Carpini Seamstress
• Adriana Masseroni Seamstress
• Marisa Fraticelli Hairstylist
• Mario Van Riel Makeup Artist
• Nadia Vitali Assistant Costume Designer
• Ada Palombi Hairstylist
• Giuseppe Annunziata Makeup Artist
• Enrico Sabbatini Costume Design

Directing

• Vittorio De Sica Director
• Luisa Alessandri First Assistant Director
• Paolo Serbandini First Assistant Director
• Franca Invernizzi Script Supervisor

Editing

• Adriana Novelli Editor
• Marisa Letti Assistant Editor
• Carla Zamponi Assistant Editor

Lighting

• Rodolfo Bramucci Gaffer

Production

• Carlo Ponti Producer
• Arthur Cohn Producer
• Jone Tuzi Line Producer
• Aldo Santarelli Production Secretary
• Enzo Nigro Production Secretary
• Vincenzo Raimondi Administration
• Stefano Pegoraro Unit Manager
• Franco Di Mauro Production Secretary
• Elio Manni Unit Manager
• Bruno Altissimi Unit Manager
• Maria Teresa Bartolelli Production Secretary
• Joseph E. Levine Executive Producer

Sound

• Henry Mancini Original Music Composer
• Renato Cadueri Sound Mixer
• Carlo Palmieri Sound
• Alvaro Orsini Sound

Writing

• Tonino Guerra Screenplay
• Cesare Zavattini Screenplay
• Tonino Guerra Story
• Cesare Zavattini Story
• Giorgi Mdivani Screenplay