Dark Eyes

(1987)

★ 6.7 IMDb · 102 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Year: 1987

Runtime: 121 мин

Country: Italy, Soviet Union

Director: Никита Михалков

Cast: Марчелло Мастроянни, Марта Келлер, Елена Сафонова, Pina Cei, Всеволод Ларионов, Иннокентий Смоктуновский, Roberto Herlitzka, Paolo Baroni, Олег Табаков, Юрий Богатырёв

Plot

Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.

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.