---
title: 'Sunflower (1970)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Vittorio De Sica'
released: '1970-03-13'
runtime_minutes: 107
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
  - 'France'
  - 'Italy'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/sunflower-1970'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065782/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Sunflower (1970)

1970 · 107 min · Drama · Soviet Union, France, Italy

Original title: I girasoli

## Synopsis

Sunflower is a 1970 romantic war tragedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica. An international co-production of Italy, France, the Soviet Union and the United States, the film was shot in the Soviet Union; some scenes were filmed near Moscow, while others near Poltava, a regional center in Ukraine.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Vittorio De Sica](https://cinepixo.com/people/vittorio-de-sica)
- **Screenplay:** [Tonino Guerra](https://cinepixo.com/people/tonino-guerra), [Cesare Zavattini](https://cinepixo.com/people/cesare-zavattini), [Georgi Mdivani](https://cinepixo.com/people/georgi-mdivani)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Henry Mancini](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-mancini)
- **Producer:** [Arthur Cohn](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-cohn), [Carlo Ponti](https://cinepixo.com/people/carlo-ponti), [Joseph E. Levine](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-e-levine)
- **Director of Photography:** [Giuseppe Rotunno](https://cinepixo.com/people/giuseppe-rotunno)

## Cast

- [Glauco Onorato](https://cinepixo.com/people/glauco-onorato)
- [Anna Carena](https://cinepixo.com/people/anna-carena)
- [Alla Budnitskaya](https://cinepixo.com/people/alla-budnitskaya)
- [Valentina Ananina](https://cinepixo.com/people/valentina-ananina)
- [Pippo Starnazza](https://cinepixo.com/people/pippo-starnazza)
- [Ludmila Savelyeva](https://cinepixo.com/people/ludmila-savelyeva)
- [Germano Longo](https://cinepixo.com/people/germano-longo)
- [Marisa Traversi](https://cinepixo.com/people/marisa-traversi)
- [Sophia Loren](https://cinepixo.com/people/sophia-loren)
- [Marcello Mastroianni](https://cinepixo.com/people/marcello-mastroianni)
- [Dino Peretti](https://cinepixo.com/people/dino-peretti)
- [Silvano Tranquilli](https://cinepixo.com/people/silvano-tranquilli)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/sunflower-1970
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