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Director
  
Luchino Visconti

Duration
  

Music director
  
Cesar Franck

Country
  
Italy

7.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, Mystery, War

Running time
  
1h 45m

Language
  
Italian

Sandra (film) movie poster

Writer
  
Suso Cecchi dAmico
,
Enrico Medioli

Release date
  
16 September 1965 (Italy) 16 January 1966 (U.S.)

Initial release
  
September 16, 1965 (Italy)

Screenplay
  
Luchino Visconti, Suso Cecchi dAmico, Enrico Medioli

Cast
  
Claudia Cardinale
(Sandra Dawson),
Michael Craig
(Andrew Dawson),
Jean Sorel
(Gianni Wald-Luzzati),
Marie Bell
(Mrs. Gilardini, Sandra's Mother),
Renzo Ricci
(Antonio Gilardini),
Fred Williams
(Pietro Formari)

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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Tagline
  
SANDRA is EXCITEMENT! What SANDRA does is ASTONISHING!

Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa is a 1965 Italian film directed by Luchino Visconti. It was released as Sandra (Of a Thousand Delights) in the United States and as Of These Thousand Pleasures in the UK.

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Plot

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Visconti's retelling of the Electra story starts with Sandra/Electra (Claudia Cardinale) returning to her ancestral home in Italy - and reviving an intimate involvement with her brother (Sorel) which troubles her naive husband (Michael Craig) - on the eve of an official ceremony commemorating the death of her Jewish father in a Nazi concentration camp. As ever with Visconti, he is ambivalently drawn to the decadent society he is ostensibly criticising; and Armando Nannuzzi's camera lovingly caresses the creaking old mansion, set in a landscape of crumbling ruins, where the incestuous siblings determine to wreak revenge on the mother (Bell) and stepfather (Ricci) who supposedly denounced their father.

The title, culled from the poem "Le ricordanze" by Giacomo Leopardi, could be translated as 'Glimmering stars of the Great Bear', and has a strong resonance with the movie's plot:

Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa, io non credea Tornare ancor per uso a contemplarvi Sul paterno giardino scintillanti, E ragionar con voi dalle finestre Di questo albergo ove abitai fanciullo, E delle gioie mie vidi la fine.(...)

English translation:

Glimmering stars of the Great Bear, I never thought I'd be back to see you Shining down on my father's garden, Nor talk to you ever again from the windows Of this house where I spent my childhood And saw the last of my happiness vanish.(...)

Cast

  • Claudia Cardinale ... Sandra Dawdson
  • Jean Sorel ... Gianni Wald-Luzzati
  • Michael Craig ... Andrew Dawdson
  • Renzo Ricci... Antonio Gilardini
  • Fred Williams ... Pietro Formari
  • Amalia Troiani... Fosca - maid
  • Marie Bell ... Sandra's mother
  • Vittorio Manfrino
  • Renato Moretti
  • Giovanni Rovini
  • Paola Piscini
  • Isacco Politi
  • Ferdinando Scarfiotti ... party guest
  • Awards

    The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

    References

    Sandra (film) Wikipedia
    Sandra (film) IMDb Sandra (film) themoviedb.org