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Sandra (1965) More at IMDbPro »Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa... (original title)

Sandra comes back to Volterra, in Tuscany, the little town where she spent her childhood. She is with her American husband, Andrew. She wishes to pay homage to her father who died in Auschwitz where she was still a little child. In Volterra, Andrew meets for the first time Gianni, Sandra's brother. He soon realizes that Sandra and Gianni have a secret since their childhood. Written by Yepok

First Prize Golden Lion Award/Venice Film Festival: Tortured by complexes and frustrations which make her volatile and unstable, Sandra Dawson returns. with her American husband Andrew, to her native Volterra, in Italy, to the family home which she had fled as a young girl. Her younger brother, Gianni, also returns. The home is to be given to the city as a memorial to their father, a prominent Jewish scientist who was killed in a Nazi concentration camp. THey are also reunited with their aged-and-ill mother, and her second husband, Gilardini, the administrator of the estate. Sandra's real reason for returning is the suspicion that her mother and Gilardini plotted to arrange the deportation and death of her father. Andrew, unable to understand Sandra's obsession,leaves her and she turns to Gianni for help, only to realize his is an incestuous interest. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

After a farewell party, Sandra Dawson and her American husband Andrew travel to her hometown in the province of Volterra for a homage of the locals to her father, a prominent scientist that died in the concentration camp of Auschwitz. The couple is welcomed by the maid Fosca, and Andrew becomes fascinated with the house. Sandra has issues with her stepfather Pietro Formari and her insane mother and misses her brother Gianni Wald-Luzzati, who is an aspirant writer. When Gianni appears in the house out of the blue, Andrew unravels a shadowy secret from the past of the siblings. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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