About the title
Based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway... Colonel Richard Cantwell stoically accepts the news that he is terminally ill. He travels to peaceful, post-war Venice for his favorite pastime — duck hunting. Cantwell once took part in the defense of the city, and memories of his youth haunt him like ghosts. Nevertheless, he admires the beauty of nature and the grandeur of the architecture, and suddenly falls in love with a very young woman...