''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". The court of Czar Nicholas I is replaced by that of
Charles III of Spain 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
Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg (; born 21 July 1971) is a British-French actress and singer. She is the daughter of English actress Jane Birkin and French musician Serge Gainsbourg. After making her musical debut with her father on the song " Lemo ...
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
Margarita de las Flores Lozano Jiménez (14 February 1931 – 7 February 2022) was a Spanish actress known for her career in Italian films. She worked for Luis Buñuel in '' Viridiana'', Sergio Leone in ''A Fistful of Dollars'', Pier Paolo Pas ...
as Sergio's Mother
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Patricia Millardet as Aurelia
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Rüdiger Vogler
Rüdiger Vogler (born 14 May 1942 in Warthausen, near Biberach an der Riß) is a German film and stage actor.
Biography
Rüdiger Vogler attended acting school in Heidelberg from 1963 to 1965. Later he played for six years at "''Theater am Turm' ...
as
King Charles
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Nastassja Kinski
Nastassja Aglaia Kinski (; , ; born 24 January 1961) is a German actress and former model who has appeared in more than 60 films in Europe and the United States. Her worldwide breakthrough was with ''Stay as You Are'' (1978). She then came to gl ...
as Cristina Del Carpio
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Pamela Villoresi 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
Matilde is an alternate spelling of the name Matilda and may refer to:
People
* Matilde Borromeo (born 1983), Italian equestrian
*Matilde Camus (1919–2012), Spanish poet
* Matilde Casazola (born 1942), Bolivian songwriter
* Matilde Fernández ( ...
as Peasant Woman
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Vittorio Capotorto as Matilda's Father
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Riccardo Parisio Perrotti Riccardo is a male given name, Italian version of Ricardo or Richard. It also may be a surname. It means "Powerful Leader".
It may refer to:
People A–L
*Riccardo Antoniazzi (1853–1912), Italian violin maker
*Riccardo Bacchelli (1891–1985 ...
as Duke Del Carpio (as Riccardo Parrisio Perrotti)
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Salvatore Rossi (actor)
Salvatore Rossi OMRI (born 6 January 1949) is an Italian economist. He is Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy and President of the Italian Insurance Supervisory Authority.
Education and career
Salvatore Rossi was born in Bari, Italy. I ...
as Eugenio
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Teresa Brescianini
Teresa (also Theresa, Therese; french: Thérèse) is a feminine given name.
It originates in the Iberian Peninsula in late antiquity. Its derivation is uncertain, it may be derived from Greek θερίζω (''therízō'') "to harvest or rea ...
as Concetta
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Biagio Barone 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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