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...hillsides along the boundary-marking Pinka and Raab rivers worked loose and washed over to the Austrian bank. On April 1, a 60-year-old Austrian farmer digging for sand on the banks of the Pinka hit a mine, which blasted off both his hands. Three weeks ago, Claudia Kracher, 2½, was playing in a pile of sand that had been trucked up from the Raab by a neighbor for mixing concrete. She stepped on a mine, which severed her left foot from her leg, and died the next...
...Claudia's death alarmed the Austrian countryside, sent village drummers and police loudspeaker cars through the vineyard-studded hills of southern Burgenland to alert the peasants to the danger. More to the point, a new eight-man Austro-Hungarian border commission called at the house of Claudia's parents to inspect fragments of the exploded mine, and the Hungarians officially admitted their guilt. The Foreign Ministry in Budapest promised to try to improve the situation, possibly (as the Austrians recommended) by damming the rivers temporarily and retrieving some of the lost mines from...
Sandra. "These shadows . . . the sifting of ashes of a dead past." Thus whisper the winds of melancholy around a decaying palazzo in the Tuscan town of Volterra, where Director Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers, The Leopard) installs Claudia Cardinale as resident tragedienne. In Visconti's modern variations on the Electra theme, Claudia struggles with a role that requires her, at times, to slip off the mantle of Greek tragedy and slip into something like a bath towel...
Married to a pipe-smoking, cameratoting American (Michael Craig), Claudia returns home after many years to witness the unveiling of a memorial to her late father, a scientist who died at Auschwitz. He was denounced to the Nazis, Claudia believes, by her mother (Marie Bell), who has since remarried and gone mad. Claudia's brother, played with a nice sense of wasting vitality by Jean Sorel, is less interested in vengeance than in incest, about which he has written an autobiographical novel. Since the family closets are already bursting with scandalous secrets, Claudia begs him to destroy the book...
...chief truth to emerge from Indifference is that Director Francesco Maselli and a random assemblage of famous players have marooned themselves in a torpid adaptation of Alberto Moravia's first novel, published in 1929. A young beauty (Claudia Cardinale) and her brother (Tomas Milian) struggle vainly to find meaning or purpose in existence. Mother (Paulette Goddard, in a series of unflattering closeups) is a faded gentlewoman whose unscrupulous lover (Rod Steiger) has entered a bid for Claudia and the family estates. Meanwhile, an aging adventuress (Shelley Winters) arduously lures young Tomas to her bed. He acquiesces at last because...