The Sun Also Shines at Night

{{short description|1990 Italian film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Sun Also Shines at Night

| image = The Sun Also Shines at Night.jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

| producer = Giuliani G. De Negri
Grazia Volpi

| writer = Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Tonino Guerra

| based_on = {{Based on|Father Sergius|Leo Tolstoy}}

| starring = Julian Sands

| music = Nicola Piovani

| cinematography = Giuseppe Lanci

| editing = Roberto Perpignani

| distributor = BAC Films (France)

| released = {{film date|1990|8|22|df=yes}}

| runtime = 112 minutes

| country = Italy
France
Germany

| language = Italian

}}

The Sun Also Shines at Night ({{langx|it|Il sole anche di notte}}, and also known as Night Sun) is an Italian film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani in 1990. It was screened out of competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/172/year/1990.html |title=Festival de Cannes: The Sun Also Shines at Night |accessdate=8 August 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}}

The plot is based on Leo Tolstoy's 1911 posthumously published short story "Father Sergius". The court of Czar Nicholas I of Russia is replaced by that of Charles III of Spain when he was still Charles VII of Naples. All of the original Russian locations are replaced by ones in southern Italy.