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Obsession

Ossessione

★ Editor's Pick

Luchino Visconti  ·  Italy  ·  1943

CrimeDrama 1940s

A drifting vagrant falls into a passionate and destructive affair with a trapped innkeeper's wife in Italy's Po Valley. Together they murder her husband, staging it as a road accident, only to find that guilt and suspicion corrode everything between them. Visconti's unauthorized adaptation of James M. Cain's novel is widely regarded as the first shot fired in the Italian neorealist revolution.

Language

Italian

Cast

Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Juan de Landa, Elio Marcuzzo, Vittorio Duse