Sandra (1965)

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Movie
German title Sandra
Sandra - The instinctual
Original title Vaghe put dell'Orsa
Country of production Italy , France
original language Italian
Publishing year 1965
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Luchino Visconti
script Suso Cecchi D'Amico
Enrico Medioli
Luchino Visconti
production Franco Cristaldi
music Franco Mannino
camera Armando Nannuzzi
cut Mario Serandrei
occupation

Sandra (also: Sandra - Die Triebhaft ) is an Italian-French film drama by Luchino Visconti from 1965. The director resorted to hard black-and-white images in this work to depict the ancient "Elektra" tragedy in the modern era of the 1960s Years to transfer. He was mainly concerned with the subjects of "betrayal" and "incest" as well as the decline of the bourgeois family.

The film launch in the Federal Republic of Germany was on January 14, 1966.

action

The Etruscan city of Volterra is the scene of a family tragedy. From Geneva, the young Sandra returns to the place of her childhood with her American husband Andrew. Her Jewish father, who died in the concentration camp, is to be honored with a bust. The meeting with her mother is very hypothermic. Her brother Gianni, however, an unstable writer, loves his sister more than just brotherly. Sandra does not reciprocate her love. At dinner Andrew and Gianni confront each other. Because Sandra learns from the mad mother that she herself forced the deportation of her father through her complaint, and Andrew learns about Gianni's incestuous relationship with Sandra.

History of origin

For the part of Sandra's vicious mother, Visconti asked many silent film divas, which, however, made excessive demands on him. He then cast the role with the French actress Marie Bell and shot the film from August to October 1964 in the dreary Volterra in Tuscany .

criticism

The film-dienst criticized Sandra as "not very convincing ..." "The staging, which is overloaded with symbolism", does not come to "precise statements" and instead indulges "extensively in romantic pathos and sultry feelings". Bosley Crowther , film critic for the New York Times , saw Visconti's directorial work as an extension of desperation for a crumbling upper class, which the Italian had already shown in his previous film The Leopard , and praised the portrayal of Claudia Cardinale.

Awards

Sandra ran in the competition at the Venice Film Festival in 1965 and won the festival's main prize with the Golden Lion against directors like Luis Buñuel (Simon in the desert), Jean-Luc Godard ( eleven o'clock ) and Akira Kurosawa ( red beard ) . The following year, cameraman Armando Nunnuzzi received the Nastro d'Argento from the professional association of Italian film journalists (SNGCI) for his black and white photos .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.imdb.de/title/tt0059856
  2. ↑ http://www.imdb.de/title/tt0059856
  3. ↑ cf. Sandra . In: The large TV feature film film lexicon (CD-ROM). Directmedia Publ., 2006, ISBN 978-3-89853-036-1
  4. ↑ cf. Sandra . In: Lexicon of International Film 2000/2001 (CD-ROM)
  5. ↑ cf. Crowther, Bosley: 'Sandra' Arrives: Claudia Cardinale Stars in Grim Italian Film . In: The New York Times, January 17, 1966