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Vaghe stelle dell’Orsa

Sandra
Film still from VAGHE STELLE DELL

Thu 16.05.
20:00

  • Director

    Luchino Visconti

  • Italy, France / 1965
    105 min. / 35 mm / Original version with English subtitles

  • with

    Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, Michael Craig

  • Original language

    Italian

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu dem Kalender

Influenced by motifs from the myth of Electra, the films takes its original title (“Dark Stars of the Big Bear”) from the first line of a poem by Giacomo Leopardi, in which he describes returning to the world of his childhood. In the film, Sandra (Claudia Cardinale), a young woman from an Italian-Jewish intellectual family, returns with her American husband Andrew from Geneva to her hometown of Volterra for the first time in years, where her father, who was murdered in Auschwitz, is to be honored with a bust. In the gloomy parental palazzo, she is increasingly carried away by childhood memories. Her brother Gianni, a frail writer, feels more than just brotherly love for his sister. The reunion with her withdrawn mother turns out to be frosty at best. Sandra and Gianni suspect her of having denounced their father. (hjf)

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media