Summary
At the end of World War II, Giovanna, a war bride living near Milan refuses to accept that her husband, Antonio, missing on the Russian front, is dead. There's a flashback to their brief courtship near her hometown of Naples, his 12-day leave to marry her, ruses to keep from deployment, and the ultimate farewell. Some years after the war, still with no word from Antonio, Giovanna goes to Russia to find him, starting in the town near the winter battle when he disappeared. Armed with his photograph, what will she find?
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Cast
Sophia Loren
Giovanna
Marcello Mastroianni
Antonio
Ludmila Savelyeva
Mascia
Galina Andreeva
Valentina
Anna Carena
Madre Antonio
Germano Longo
Ettore
Glauco Onorato
Il reduce
Silvano Tranquilli
L'operaio italiano
Marisa Traversi
Donna stazione
Gunārs Cilinskis
Funzionario russo
Umberto Di Grazia
Pippo Starnazza
Alla Budnitskaya
Uncredited
Nadezhda Cherednichenko
Contadina russa (as Nadja Cerednicenko)
Pyotr Kolbasin