25th Titanic: Nico, 1988

Director: Susanna Nicchiarelli

Screenwriter: Susanna Nicchiarelli
Cinematography: Crystel Fournier
Cast: Trine Dyrholm, John Gordon Sinclair, Anamaria Marinca, Sandor Funtek, Thomas Trabacchi, Karina Fernandez, Calvin Demba, Francesco Colella

In competition

A road-movie dedicated to the last years of Christa Päffgen, aka “Nico”. She was one of Warhol’s muses, singer of the Velvet Underground and a woman of legendary beauty. Her music is among the most original of the Seventies and Eighties, and has influenced much of the musical production that followed. The “priestess of darkness”, as she was called, found her true calling after age forty, when she shook off the weight of her beauty and rebuilt her relationship with her forgotten son.


25th Titanic Festival programme