This Russian-Italian co-production from 1987 finds two older men, one Italian, the other Russian, talking in the empty dining hall of a slow ocean liner. Reviewed by AlsExGal 7 / 10 well done international tale of romance His amazed and appreciative Russian listener then narrates a shorter story. He pursues her into the Russian heartland and returns to Italy resolved to leave his wife and marry his love. 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. Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.
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