The Sun Also Shines at Night

(Redirected from Il sole anche di notte)

The Sun Also Shines at Night (Italian: Il sole anche di notte, and also known as Night Sun) is an Italian film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani in 1990. It was screened out of competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

The Sun Also Shines at Night
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Directed byPaolo and Vittorio Taviani
Written byPaolo and Vittorio Taviani
Tonino Guerra
Based onFather Sergius
by Leo Tolstoy
Produced byGiuliani G. De Negri
Grazia Volpi
StarringJulian Sands
CinematographyGiuseppe Lanci
Edited byRoberto Perpignani
Music byNicola Piovani
Release date
  • 22 August 1990 (1990-08-22)
Running time
112 minutes
CountriesItaly
France
Germany
LanguageItalian

The plot is based on Leo Tolstoy's 1911 posthumously published short story "Father Sergius". The court of Czar Nicholas I of Russia 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.

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  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Sun Also Shines at Night". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 8 August 2009.
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