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Sunflower (Italian: I girasoli) is a 1970 Italian drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It was the first occidental（西洋） film to be filmed in the USSR.
Neapolitan lovers', Giovanna (Sophia Loren) and Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), honeymoon is cut short by Antonio's deployment to the Russian Front during World War II. Antonio does not return when the war is over, and is listed as missing in action. Despite the odds(困難にめげず), Giovanna is convinced her true love has survived the war and is still in Russia. Determined, she journeys to Russia to find him. In Russia, Giovanna visits the sunflower fields, where there is supposedly one flower for each fallen Italian soldier, and where the Germans forced the Italians to dig their own mass graves. Eventually, Giovanna finds Antonio, but by now he has started a second family with a woman who saved his life, and they have one daughter. Herself childless, having been faithful to her newly-wed husband, Giovanna returns to Italy, heartbroken, but unwilling to disrupt her love's new life. Some more years later, Antonio returns to Giovanna, asking her to come back with him to Russia. Meanwhile, Giovanna has tried to move on with her own life, moving out of their first home together and into her own apartment. She has started dating again, has given birth to a baby boy, and is living as a single parent. He explains his new life, how war changes a man, how safe he felt with his new woman after years of death. Unwilling to ruin Antonio's daughter's or her own new son's life, Giovanna refuses to leave Italy, expressing an intense emotional maturity in her choice. As they part, Antonio gives her a fur scarf, something he promised to bring her back years ago. The lovers lock eyes as Antonio's train takes him away from Giovanna, and from Italy, forever.
Sunflower is rated ★★★★★
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