Obsession (film)
Movie | |
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German title | obsession |
Original title | Ossession |
Country of production | Italy |
original language | Italian |
Publishing year | 1943 |
length | 140 minutes |
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Director | Luchino Visconti |
script |
Luchino Visconti Mario Alicata Giuseppe De Santis Gianni Puccini |
music | Giuseppe Rosati |
camera |
Domenico Scala Aldo Tonti |
cut | Mario Serandrei |
occupation | |
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Obsession ( Ossessione ) is the first work of the Italian film director Luchino Visconti from 1943 . The feature film is generally considered to be the first work of Italian neorealism ( Manoel de Oliveira's previously released film Aniki Bóbó was ignored at the time). This movement was directed against the unrealistic entertainment cinema in fascist Italy and had difficulties with censorship.
Visconti, who had been the assistant director of the French director Jean Renoir , had received the dark detective novel When the Postman Rings Twice by the American James M. Cain from his teacher . Without having obtained the rights to the novel, Visconti took over the material for his feature film. The film was shot on the banks of the Po and in the cities of Ancona and Ferrara .
action
The tramp Gino meets Giovanna Bragana, the young wife of the older owner, at a gas station and trattoria. A passionate affair develops between Gino and Giovanna. However, Gino then travels to Ancona : He does not want to continue building on a disturbed relationship and the port of Ancona is for him the hope of a better future. But fate brings the two lovers together again. Gino then murders Bragana. The guilt of the murder, however, is unbearable. Gino leaves his lover and goes to Ferrara . In this city Gino meets a friendly prostitute. He hopes to leave the past behind.
background
The film was only released briefly in Italian cinemas in June 1943 and was eventually banned by censors. The negative was destroyed, but Visconti managed to save a copy. The film opened in German cinemas on July 24, 1959. In 1985 ZDF created a new integral dubbed version, which was broadcast for the first time on April 16, 1985. This version is also included on the DVD released by Arthaus in 2014 . Massimo Girotti was spoken by Heiner Lauterbach , Juan de Landa by Günter Strack .
criticism
"Visconti's masterful first film is characterized by sensual power, precise milieu depiction and a differentiated morality."
See also
- In the Web of Passions ( The Postman Always Rings Twice ) US version from 1946
- When the Postman Rings Twice ( The Postman Always Rings Twice ) American version from 1981
literature
- Paul Duncan, Jürgen Müller (eds.): Film Noir, 100 All-Time Favorites , Taschen GmbH, Cologne 2014. ISBN 978-3-8365-4353-8 , pp. 104-109.
- Bernd Kiefer: Ossessione ... obsessed with love / obsession in classic films - descriptions and comments / edited by Thomas Koebner . 5th edition, Reclam junior, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-15-030033-6 ; Volume 1: 1913-1945, pp. 515-521.
Web links
- Obsession in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Geitel u. a .: Luchino Visconti (Film series, Volume 4), 4th edition, Munich / Vienna 1985, page 147
- ↑ For information see: German synchronous card index