Ossessione

Emerging from the tumultuous climate of Italy in 1943, Luchino Visconti’s sensational debut wipes out years of fascist rhetoric with its bitter, transgressive realism and radical sexuality.

  • Director

    Luchino Visconti

  • With

    Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Juan De Landa, Elio Marcuzzo

  • Italy 1943. 141min

  • Digital 4K (restoration)

  • Certificate

    PG

  • English subtitles

The arrival of a rugged vagabond at a roadside trattoria along the Po River and his subsequent affair with the owner’s wife sets off a destructive spiral of lust, adultery and murder. Jean Renoir gave Visconti a copy of James M. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice and it led to this milestone of neorealism, which introduces passion and poverty, while breaking many conventions of the time along the way.

Restored in 4K by Cinecittà, CSC – Cineteca Nazionale and VIGGO. Courtesy of Cinecittà.