Sunflower

★★★★★

Original title: I girasoli · Turkish title: Güneş Çiçeği

“A woman born for love. A man born to love her. A timeless moment in a world gone mad.”

1970 · 1 h 47 min

Directed by Vittorio De Sica

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Cast

Sophia Loren Marcello Mastroianni

Credits

Written by: Tonino Guerra

Plot

A woman searches for her husband, lost in Russia during the war.

Sinekatalog’s take

Vittorio De Sica's melodrama has Sophia Loren searching Russia for her husband lost in the war. Loren and Marcello Mastroianni are superb, and Henry Mancini's score adds to a lush, sentimental weepie.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.3 / 10 (5,182 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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