Nico, 1988

2DORCS15
Director:Susanna Nicchiarelli
Cast:Trine Dyrholm, John Gordon Sinclair, Anamaria Marinca, Sandor Funtek
Premiere:27. September 2018
Length:93 minutes
Genre:Music, Drama, Biographical

Nico, 1988

Nico, 1988; Susanna Nicchiarelli, 2017, versions: OR,CS,

Director: Susanna Nicchiarelli • Scenario: Susanna Nicchiarelli • Camera: Crystel Fournier • Haircut: Stefano Cravero • Music: Gatto Ciliegia Contro il Grande Freddo • Cast: Trine Dyrholm, John Gordon Sinclair, Anamaria Marinca, Sandor Funtek, Calvin Demba, Thomas Trabacchi, Karina Fernandez, Francesco Corella, Matt Patresi

Please don’t call her Nico or “Andy Warhol’s muse”. And Christa Päffgen doesn’t want to talk about her brief period with The Velvet Underground some two decades later. For her, life started only after that illustrious period, even though reporters and admirers are generally less interested in her own solo career or ideas... The biopic Nico, 1988 follows Nico/Christa in the last two years of her life, during international performances – occasionally phenomenal, sometimes embarrassing – while she tries to build a bond with her suicidal son and openly shoots up heroin as a pick-me-up. Susanna Nicchiarelli does not condemn her, nor does she romanticise her. She makes her hard, yet also vulnerable; occasionally regrettable, but never pitiful. (source: Rotterdam IFF)

Length: 93 min

Year: 2017
Local premiere date: 27. September 2018

Country of origin:

  • Italy
  • Belgium

Language version:

OR - Original version
CS - Czech subtitles

Director: Susanna Nicchiarelli • Scenario: Susanna Nicchiarelli • Camera: Crystel Fournier • Haircut: Stefano Cravero • Music: Gatto Ciliegia Contro il Grande Freddo • Cast: Trine Dyrholm, John Gordon Sinclair, Anamaria Marinca, Sandor Funtek, Calvin Demba, Thomas Trabacchi, Karina Fernandez, Francesco Corella, Matt Patresi

Please don’t call her Nico or “Andy Warhol’s muse”. And Christa Päffgen doesn’t want to talk about her brief period with The Velvet Underground some two decades later. For her, life started only after that illustrious period, even though reporters and admirers are generally less interested in her own solo career or ideas... The biopic Nico, 1988 follows Nico/Christa in the last two years of her life, during international performances – occasionally phenomenal, sometimes embarrassing – while she tries to build a bond with her suicidal son and openly shoots up heroin as a pick-me-up. Susanna Nicchiarelli does not condemn her, nor does she romanticise her. She makes her hard, yet also vulnerable; occasionally regrettable, but never pitiful. (source: Rotterdam IFF)

Year: 2017
Local premiere date: 27. September 2018

Country of origin:

  • Italy
  • Belgium

Language version:

OR - Original version
CS - Czech subtitles