Film

Dark Eyes

Name: Dark Eyes
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Released: 1987
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Marthe Keller, Silvana Mangano, Vsevolod Larionov, Elena Safonova

1987 · 121 min · ★ 6.9 · Dir. Nikita Mikhalkov

Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.

Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. In a series of flashbacks filmed almost entirely in creams, whites, and ochers, the clownish and superfluous Romano Patroni leaves his wife's opulent home to visit a spa where he falls in love with a Russian woman whose marriage is a horror. He pursues her into the Russian heartland and returns to Italy resolved to leave his wife and marry his love. His amazed and appreciative Russian listener then narrates a shorter story.