View Item - RU-N001-1990

Language:
Italian
Category:
Drama
Catalog Num:
RU-N001-1990
Title:
Night Sun -- LOCATED IN I.A.S. OFFICE
Item Type:
Video
Medium:
VHS
Program:
International Studies

Reserved:
No
Status:
Available

Based in Leo Tolstoy's novel, Father Sergius, Night Sun stars Julian Sends as Sergio, a nobleman in 18th-century. Italy who is expected to marry a duchess, Nastassja Kinski, Upon learning that she was previously the king's mistress, Sergio turns his back on society and becomes a monk. While at the hermitage he tries to resist all sexual temptations before him and soon becomes known as a miracle worker. Eventually he succumbs to a young seductress and knowing he is endeserving of the adulation, leaves ther hermitage to travel around as a homeless beggar. Country: Italy. Subtitled. (I.A.S. now located in Old McMillan 254.)

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