Maria's Lovers (1984) on Netflix
Ivan Bibic returns to his Pennsylvania town after a Japanese prison camp and looks for Maria Bosic, his childhood sweetheart. He finds her with Captain Al Griselli.
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Plot summary
Ivan Bibic comes back to his small Pennsylvania town after time in a Japanese prison camp, carrying the nightmares of the war with him. Maria Bosic, the childhood sweetheart he counted on through those years, is in the arms of Captain Al Griselli. Ivan's father thinks Maria is too good for his son and pairs him with Mrs. Wynic, a flirty neighbor. The town's Yugoslav immigrants give Ivan a hero's welcome, and at the party he takes Maria off on his motorbike to the spot they used to visit. He has kept a pair of earrings waiting there since before he left.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Maria's Lovers (1984)
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- Nastassja Kinski and Vincent Spano began a relationship while making Maria's Lovers, and their son was born a few months before the film premiered.
- Maria's Lovers was Andrei Konchalovsky's first American feature film; Variety's Todd McCarthy wrote that he was probably the first Russian director to make a major American film with well-known actors.
- The film's opening sequence uses excerpts from John Huston's 1946 U.S. Army documentary Let There Be Light, which is about posttraumatic stress disorder.
