Ophelia
short movie, 13’, Germany
release date. 2014
work. guitars
director. Sergei Rostropovich
music composer. Vittorio Giampietro
About the movie:
Suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's. Vera (Hanna Schygulla), an elder widow living in Paris struggles daily as the lines of reality begin to blur. She watches films of her past and films her present, in a desperate attempt to hold on to the only thing she has left: her memory.
Festival:
- New York Film Festival 2014, USA, NY
- Festival de Cannes 2014 (Young Authors Section), France, Cannes
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I was involved in recording guitars and arrangement process of the main song Ocean Deep Blue
The composer says: “The main original song I wrote for the first scene (played by an old vinyl player) and for the title scene, is a classical 60s style song as the ones that our parents could listen to. It stands for the memory of the youth, the only clear memory that Ophelia has and uses to keep contact with reality. Memories are like an ocean, a deep blue ocean.”
Stills from the movie
