Sunflower

Sunflower (2025)

2025

Drama / War

7.6 from 10 with total 154 votes

1970-03-14

109 minutes

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?

Sophia Loren character Giovanna

Marcello Mastroianni character Antonio

Ludmila Savelyeva character Mascia

Galina Andreeva character Valentina

Anna Carena character Madre Antonio

Germano Longo character Ettore

Glauco Onorato character Il reduce

Silvano Tranquilli character L'operaio italiano

Marisa Traversi character Donna stazione

Gunārs Cilinskis character Funzionario russo

Gianni Bortolotto character Italian official

Oleg Fyodorov character Young Russian worker (uncredited)

Alla Budnitskaya character Uncredited

Nadezhda Cherednichenko character Contadina russa (as Nadja Cerednicenko)