Dark Eyes(Очи черные)
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Italy, Soviet Union · 1987
2h 1m
Director Nikita Mikhalkov
Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Marthe Keller, Silvana Mangano, Vsevolod Larionov
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
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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.