Director: Nikita Mikhalkov

1987 | 118’ | 12 years and up | Russia

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, 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.

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Silvana Mangano, Marthe Keller, Yelena Safonova, Pina Cei