Ossessione (1943)

Directed by

Luchino Visconti

Genre

drama film, film noir, crime film

Country

Italy

Runtime

2h 20m

Rated

18

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 272 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A drifter becomes entangled with a married woman and her husband in a small Italian town. Their obsessive affair leads them to conspire toward a dangerous act.

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What happens

Ossessione (Italian pronunciation: [ossesˈsjoːne]; "Obsession") is a 1943 Italian crime drama film directed and co-written by Luchino Visconti, in his directorial debut. It is an unauthorized and uncredited adaptation of the 1934 novel The Postman Always Rings Twice by American author James M. Cain, and stars Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, and Juan de Landa in the leading roles. It is often considered to be the first Italian neorealist film, though there is some debate about whether such a categorization is accurate. Banned and ostracized by the Fascist regime during its initial release, the Italian Ministry of Culture has since placed Ossessione on its list of 100 Italian films to be saved, distinguishing films which "changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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