ok but before this Goncharovposting thing ends for good I need to point out how lucky the crew was that in March 1971, while they were filming the movie, it actually snowed in Naples, allowing them to film some scenes in the snow and making the tagline "winter comes to Naples" literal.
Yes, the crew essentially got lucky, but the snow adds so much to the movie, emphasizing the dreamlike feeling of unreality that pervades the entire picture, and further solidifying the inversion of cultural stereotypes, presenting us with a Naples that seems just as cold and uncaring as Moscow in the opening shot.


















