Sunflower
Academy Award® Winners and Nominees
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1h 47m
Directed by Vittorio De Sica • Drama • 1970 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
Starring Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni
An Oscar nominee for Best Score (Henry Mancini), “Sunflower” is a grandly emotional melodrama from Vittorio De Sica. Sophia Loren plays a steel-willed Italian woman on a desperate search to find her husband Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), who has gone missing on the WWII battlefields of Russia. Making the grueling journey after the end of the war, she tracks Antonio down and finds him a changed man.
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