Sunflower

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

Giovanna

Marcello Mastroianni

Antonio

Ludmila Savelyeva

Mascia

Galina Andreyeva

Valentina

Anna Carena

Madre Antonio

Nadja Cerednicenko

Contadina russa

Germano Longo

Ettore

Glauco Onorato

Il reduce

Silvano Tranquilli

L'operaio italiano

Marisa Traversi

Donna stazione

Gunārs Cilinskis

Funzionario russo

Giorgio Basso

Gianni Bortolotto

Italian official

Umberto Di Grazia

Giuliano Girardi

Dino Peretti

Pippo Starnazza

Oleg Fyodorov

Young Russian worker (uncredited)