The Sun Also Shines at Night

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.

The plot is based on Tolstoy's novel Father Sergius. The court of Czar Nicholas I is substituted for that of Charles III of Spain when he was still Charles VII of Naples. All of the original Russian locations are substituted for ones in southern Italy.

Cast

Julian Sands as Sergio Giuramondo

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Matilda

Massimo Bonetti as Prince Santobuono

Margarita Lozano as Sergio's Mother

Patricia Millardet as Aurelia

Rüdiger Vogler as King Charles

Nastassja Kinski as Cristina Del Carpio

Pamela Villoresi as Giuseppina Giuramondo

Geppy Geijeses as Bishop (as Geppy Gleijeses)

Sonia Gessner as Duchess Del Carpio

Tony Sperandeo as Gesuino (as Gaetano Sperandeo)

Matilde Piana as Peasant Woman

Vittorio Capotorto as Matilda's Father

Riccardo Parisio Perrotti as Duke Del Carpio (as Riccardo Parrisio Perrotti)

Salvatore Rossi as Eugenio

Teresa Brescianini as Concetta

Biagio Barone as Father Biagio