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Sandra (Italian: Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa, lit. 'Glimmering stars of the Great Bear') is a 1965 drama film directed and co-written by Luchino Visconti, and starring Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, and Michael Craig.
Sandra: Directed by Luchino Visconti. With Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, Michael Craig, Renzo Ricci. Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but her childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.
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- Drama, Mystery
- Luchino Visconti
- 1966-01-16
“Sandra: Of a Thousand Delights” is Luchino Visconti’s adaption of the Greek tragedy of Electra and Orestes; two siblings who plot to kill their mother, Clytemnestra. Visconti moves the tale to just after the Second World War; an aperitif to the main course of “The Damned” that would follow.
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- Vides Cinematografica
- Luchino Visconti
A heady slice of Sixties Italian melodrama, Sandra is a film so furiously emotional that it might easily be perceived as comedy by a modern audience, yet it is suffused with beauty like all Visconti's work, too pleasing to the eye and too visibly a product of genius to be discounted so lightly.
Sandra is a 1965 drama film directed and co-written by Luchino Visconti, and starring Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, and Michael Craig. A modern-day retelling of the Electra story, the film centers on the incestuous relationship between a young Italian woman (Cardinale) and her brother (Sorel), on her return to their ancestral home of Volterra.
A young Italian woman, along with her American husband, returns to her hometown for a ceremony honoring her late father, a Jewish scientist killed by the Nazis during the war. The sensible husband is stunned by the highly emotional nature of her family—as many family secrets come to light.
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