Obsession (film)

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Movie
German title obsession
Original title Ossession
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1943
length 140 minutes
Rod
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

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."

- film service

See also

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.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Geitel u. a .: Luchino Visconti (Film series, Volume 4), 4th edition, Munich / Vienna 1985, page 147
  2. ↑ For information see: German synchronous card index