Sonnenblumen (1970)

Sonnenblumen: Directed by Vittorio De Sica. With Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Saveleva, Galina Andreeva. An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia during WWII.

“u0026quot;I Girasoliu0026quot; is certainly one of the best romantic stories in an honest and pure setting in Italy and Russia. It is a dramatic love story of Antonio and Giovana wanting to stay together in the war. The impossibility to hold on to the newly found and sweetest happiness becomes inevitable in the destructive war, where Anoinio is found half frozen by a Russian woman. The accent lies in finding love in warm sunny Italy and loosing this in the freezing cold war thousands of miles away. Although in this new other world there is love too, it is never the same as before. At the end the search for the lost love is completed and in vain when life has changed there lives irreversibly. Un impossibile ritorno al passato.”