White Nights
Le notti bianche
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Across four misty, snow-dusted winter nights in an artificial studio canal quarter of Livorno, a lonely new clerk wanders the bridges and falls in love with a delicate young woman who waits each midnight for the return of her mysterious lover who promised to come back for her after one year. Luchino Visconti's Venice Silver Lion-winning romantic fairy tale adapted from Dostoevsky starring Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, and Jean Marais.
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