Cast 
Marcello Mastroianni  ...  Romano 
Marthe Keller  ...  Tina, Romano's Mistress 
Yelena Safonova  ...  Anna Sergeyevna, Governor's Wife (as Elena Sofonova) 
Pina Cei  ...  Elisa's Mother 
Vsevolod Larionov  ...  Pavel (Russian Ship Passenger) 
Innokenti Smoktunovsky  ...  Il Governarore di Sisoiev (as Innochentij Smoktunovskj) 
Roberto Herlitzka  ...  L'Avvocato 
Paolo Baroni  ...  Manlio 
Oleg Tabakov  ...  Sua Grazia 
Yuri Bogatyryov  ...  Il Maresciallo (as Jury Bogatiriov) 
Dmitri Zolotukhin  ...  Konstantin (as Dimitri Zolothuchin) 

Genre:  Drama | Comedy | Drama
Runtime: 121 min`s

Sound: Russian

Subtitles:  English and Russian

Region - 5 (Russia) PAL

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.