''The Sun Also Shines at Night'' ( it, Il sole anche di notte, and also known as ''Night Sun'') is an Italian film directed by
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Paolo Taviani (; born 8 November 1931) and Vittorio Taviani (; 20 September 1929 – 15 April 2018), collectively referred to as the Taviani brothers, were Italian film directors and screenwriters who collaborated on film productions.
At the C ...
in 1990. It was screened out of competition at the
1990 Cannes Film Festival
The 43rd Cannes Film Festival was held from 10 to 21 May 1990. The Palme d'Or went to '' Wild at Heart'' by David Lynch.
The festival opened with '' Dreams'', directed by Akira Kurosawa and closed with ''The Comfort of Strangers'', directed by Pau ...
.
The plot is based on
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...
's 1911 posthumously published short story "
Father Sergius
"Father Sergius" (russian: Отец Сергий, Otets Sergiy) is a short story written by Leo Tolstoy between 1890 and 1898 and first published (posthumously) in 1911.Julian Connolly in Charles A. Moser (ed.), ''The Cambridge History of Russian ...
". The court of Czar Nicholas I is replaced by that of
Charles III of Spain
it, Carlo Sebastiano di Borbone e Farnese
, house = Bourbon-Anjou
, father = Philip V of Spain
, mother = Elisabeth Farnese
, birth_date = 20 January 1716
, birth_place = Royal Alcazar of Madrid, Spain
, death_da ...
when he was still Charles VII of Naples. All of the original Russian locations are replaced by ones in southern Italy.
Cast
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as Sergio Giuramondo
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Charlotte Gainsbourg as Matilda
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Massimo Bonetti
Massimo Bonetti (born 28 March 1951) is an Italian actor and director.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Bonetti after several years as character actor debuted in a leading role in 1981, in Aurelio Chiesa's ''Bim Bum Bam''. Then, he obtained role ...
as Prince Santobuono
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Margarita Lozano as Sergio's Mother
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Patricia Millardet as Aurelia
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Rüdiger Vogler as
King Charles
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Nastassja Kinski as Cristina Del Carpio
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Pamela Villoresi
Maria Pamela Villoresi (born 1 January 1957) is an Italian theatre, cinema and television actress. She has performed in more than 100 theatrical productions and in more than 30 films.
Life and career
The daughter of a cloth merchant of Prato ...
as Giuseppina Giuramondo
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Geppy Geijeses as Bishop (as Geppy Gleijeses)
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Sonia Gessner as Duchess Del Carpio
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Tony Sperandeo
Tony Sperandeo (born 8 May 1953) is an Italian actor of cinema and television. Sperandeo is notable for frequently playing the roles of tough characters from his native region, Sicily. As of 2011, he was working on ''La Nuova Squadra'', a police ...
as Gesuino (as Gaetano Sperandeo)
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Matilde Piana as Peasant Woman
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Vittorio Capotorto
Vittorio is an Italian male given name which has roots from the Byzantine-Bulgarian name Victor.
People with the given name Vittorio include:
* Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, pretender to the former Kingdom of Italy
* Vittorio Adorni, pro ...
as Matilda's Father
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Riccardo Parisio Perrotti as Duke Del Carpio (as Riccardo Parrisio Perrotti)
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Salvatore Rossi (actor) as Eugenio
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Teresa Brescianini as Concetta
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Biagio Barone Biagio is an Italian male given name. It may also refer to:
People
* Biagio (archbishop), Archbishop of Torres
* Biagio Antonacci, Italian singer-songwriter
* Biagio Betti, Italian painter
* Biagio Black, American painter
* Biagio Brugi, Italian ju ...
as Father Biagio
References
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1990 films
1990 drama films
French drama films
German drama films
Italian drama films
West German films
1990s Italian-language films
Films based on works by Leo Tolstoy
Films directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Films set in Italy
Films set in the 1750s
Films shot in Matera
Films with screenplays by Tonino Guerra
1990s Italian films
1990s French films
1990s German films
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