Torrents of Spring | |
Director: | Jerzy Skolimowski |
Producer: | Mario Cotone |
Screenplay: | Jerzy Skolimowski |
Story: | Ivan Turgenev |
Starring: | Timothy Hutton Nastassja Kinski Valeria Golino William Forsythe Urbano Barberini |
Music: | Stanley Myers |
Cinematography: | Witold Sobocinski |
Editing: | Cesare D'Amico |
Studio: | Erre Produzioni Reteitalia Les Films Ariane Films A2 |
Distributor: | Curzon Film Distributors (United Kingdom) BIM Distribuzione (Italy) Les Films Ariane (France) |
Country: | United Kingdom France Italy |
Language: | English |
Gross: | $111,747 |
Torrents of Spring is a 1989 drama film written and directed by Jerzy Skolimowski and starring Timothy Hutton, Nastassja Kinski and Valeria Golino. It is based on the 1872 novel by Ivan Turgenev. It is a British, French, and Italian co-production. Set in 1840, the film follows a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, who is torn between the love of a beautiful German pastry-shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, and a Russian seductress, Princess Maria Nikolaevna. The film competed for the Golden Palm Award at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
The film grossed $111,747 upon its U.S. theatrical release.