Dark Eyes (1987)

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.
Nikita Mikhalkov
Marcello Mastroianni, Marthe Keller, Silvana Mangano, Vsevolod Larionov, Elena Safonova, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Oleg Tabakov, Yuri Bogatyryov, Pina Cei, Roberto Herlitzka, Paolo Baroni, Dmitriy Zolotukhin, Nino Bignamini, Maria Grazia Bon, Elguja Burduli, Pierluigi Cervetti, Francesco De Rosa, Aleksandr Filippenko, Isa Gallinelli, Pavel Kadochnikov, Larisa Kuznetsova, Avangard Leontyev, Evelina Meghnagi, Renzo Marignano, Loredana Martínez, Maria Grazia Nazzari, Riccardo Parisio Perrotti, Ivana Rumor, Lyubov Rudneva, Carola Stagnaro, Max Turilli, Francesca Ventura, Isabella Rossellini, Galina Bokashevskaya, Aleksandr Adabashyan, Nikolay Vashchilin, Natalya Khorokhorina, Svetlana Kireeva
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