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In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, who soon starts sharing his feelings. They decide to get married and, in order to finance the wedding, Dimitri goes back to Russia to sell his family estate. Unfortunately he falls prey to a seductress, Princess Maria Nikolaevna, who pretends to be willing to buy his land to come nearer him. Now Sanin is in a fix: should he choose the pure Gemma or the evil but irresistible Maria?Read moreLess
In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, who soon starts sharing his feelings. They decide to get married and, in order to finance the wedding, Dimitri goes back to Russia to sell his family estate. Unfortunately he falls prey to a seductress, Princess Maria Nikolaevna, who pretends to be willing to buy his land to come nearer him. Now Sanin is in a fix: should he choose the pure Gemma or the evil but irresistible Maria?
The story
In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, who soon starts sharing his feelings. They decide to get married and, in order to finance the wedding, Dimitri goes back to Russia to sell his family estate. Unfortunately he falls prey to a seductress, Princess Maria Nikolaevna, who pretends to be willing to buy his land to come nearer him. Now Sanin is in a fix: should he choose the pure Gemma or the evil but irresistible Maria?
Cast & crew
Timothy HuttonDimitri Sanin
Nastassja KinskiMaria Nikolaevna Polozov
Valeria GolinoGemma Rosselli
William ForsythePrince Ippolito Polozov
Pietro BontempoMan With Glasses
Jerzy SkolimowskiWiktor Wiktorowicz
Xavier MalyPulcinella
Urbano BarberiniBaron Von Doenhof
Francesca De SapioMrs. Rosselli
Jacques HerlinPantaleone
Antonio CantaforaRichter
Krzysztof JanczarKlueberExplore the crew
- Director
- Jerzy Skolimowski
- Screenplay
- Jerzy Skolimowski
- Producer
- Angelo Rizzoli Jr.
- Original Music Composer
- Stanley Myers
- Director of Photography
- Witold Sobociński
- Director of Photography
- Dante Spinotti
- Editor
- Cesare D'Amico