Released Date:
1987-11-01
Languages:
Italian, Russian, French
Countries:
Italy, USA, Soviet Union
Runtime:
117 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (2051 Reviews)
Director:
Nikita MikhalkovAleksandr Adabashyan (story)
Nikita Mikhalkov (story)
Suso Cecchi D'Amico (scenario collaborator)
Anton Chekhov (short stories)
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.
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