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Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but her childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but her childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but her childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 2 nominations
Oscar Brazzi
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Glenn Saxson
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaOne of the first films in which Claudia Cardinale, who was born in Tunisia and whose first language was French, dubbed herself in Italian.
- Quotes
Corinna Gilardini, madre di Sandra e Gianni: Two monsters, monsters, my children. Yes, my children. He was always hiding there behind the door. What am I to say? Are my children monsters? My enemies?
- ConnectionsFeatured in Visconti (1967)
- SoundtracksPrelude, chorale and fugue
Written by César Franck
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The decay of an aristocratic family
Luchino Visconti often dealt with the disintegration of family in his films; The Damed, The Leopard, Conversation Piece.. The stories were tragedies and only in Bellissima (1951) the family sticked together in the end. Sandra (Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa...) is also a film about this, but specifically about an aristocratic family full of betrayal, decay and immorality.
Incest is a leading theme in Sandra; we are given clues about it throughout the film, but not a definite proof. The affair of the siblings remains in the shadows and there's something odd in the relationships between the children and the parents. Visconti first approaches this controversial theme calmly, showing it as a small thing - we are not told much about it. But then he increases it to enormous dimensions.
Luchino Visconti sets this story to a dying city around a aristocratic class that is dying out. Great tragedies, misfortunes and decay lead this class to extinction. Already in Senso Visconti achieved an aesthetic revolution, but he continues this in Sandra with a political and ethic revolution. Sandra is not the easiest film by Visconti and many people in the theater seemed to neglect it. In the beginning I found it a little unreachable and absurd but it grew up to be a beautiful allegorical description of the decay of an aristocratic family.
Incest is a leading theme in Sandra; we are given clues about it throughout the film, but not a definite proof. The affair of the siblings remains in the shadows and there's something odd in the relationships between the children and the parents. Visconti first approaches this controversial theme calmly, showing it as a small thing - we are not told much about it. But then he increases it to enormous dimensions.
Luchino Visconti sets this story to a dying city around a aristocratic class that is dying out. Great tragedies, misfortunes and decay lead this class to extinction. Already in Senso Visconti achieved an aesthetic revolution, but he continues this in Sandra with a political and ethic revolution. Sandra is not the easiest film by Visconti and many people in the theater seemed to neglect it. In the beginning I found it a little unreachable and absurd but it grew up to be a beautiful allegorical description of the decay of an aristocratic family.
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- Sep 21, 2010
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- Also known as
- Drage zvezde Velikog medveda
- Filming locations
- Geneva, Canton de Genève, Switzerland(opening sequence: party at Sandra and Andrew's apartment)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $927
- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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