Visconti’s retelling of the Electra story starts with Sandra/Electra (Cardinale) returning to her ancestral home in Italy – and reviving an intimate involvement with her brother (Sorel) which troubles her naive American husband (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. Something like a Verdi opera without the music, the result may not quite achieve tragedy, but it looks marvellous. The title, culled from a poem by Leopardi, has been better rendered as ‘Twinkling Stars of the Bear’.

Sandra.1965.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 40 min
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https://nitro.download/view/9FF9E13FE22F04D/Sandra.1965.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English, Italian

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Experience The Year 2000…And Hope To Hell You Can Escape!

In the near future, after an unspecified holocaust, survivors are herded into prison camps. There, they are hunted for sport by the leaders of the camp. Paul, one of the newest prisoners, is determined not to go down as quietly as the others.

+Commentary by director Brian Trenchard-Smith (2003)
+Commentary by producer Antony I. Ginnane and filmmaker Mark Hartley (2021)

2.56GB | 1h 33m | 1024×436 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/05B8032AB061AF5/Turkey.Shoot.1982.576p.BluRay.AC3.x264-KG.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:English

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Storyline:
An American airline firm plan to buy a new British passenger plane, but the deal hits trouble when the plane’s designer Jack Hopkins and Kathy Fisher the daughter of the Airline owner, take an instant dislike to each other, after crashing into each other in a quiet country lane. With each blaming the other for the accident, the arrangement looks in trouble, unless nature takes a hand.

1.46GB | 1h 37m | 953×572 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/C85785FBC972140/The.Iron.Maiden.1962.DVDRip.x264-FuFu.mkv
or
https://nitro.download/view/B3FF83B3A1E38B4/The.Iron.Maiden.1962.DVDRip.x264-FuFu.part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/314F57CF45F6129/The.Iron.Maiden.1962.DVDRip.x264-FuFu.part2.rar

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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Visconti’s retelling of the Electra story starts with Sandra/Electra (Cardinale) returning to her ancestral home in Italy – and reviving an intimate involvement with her brother (Sorel) which troubles her naive American husband (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. Something like a Verdi opera without the music, the result may not quite achieve tragedy, but it looks marvellous. The title, culled from a poem by Leopardi, has been better rendered as ‘Twinkling Stars of the Bear’.

Sandra.1965.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-KG.mkv

General
Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 36mn
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Audio
Italian 2.0ch AAC @ 128 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/0E7F19890F769B5/Sandra.1965.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-KG.mkv

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English, French

The post Luchino Visconti – Vaghe stelle dell’Orsa… AKA Sandra of a Thousand Delights (1965) first appeared on Cinema of the World.