Massimo Girotti
Gino Costa
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Plot. Gino Costa, a wandering tramp, stops at a small roadside tavern and petrol station in the Po Valley, run by Giovanna Bragana and her older husband, Giuseppe. Giovanna is disgusted by her husband, having married him only for his money, and is instantly drawn to the younger and more attractive Gino.
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Sep 8, 2019 · Summary: Set in the Po Delta, Ossessione tells the doomed love story of a handsome vagabond and a frustrated wife. When Gino stops in Bragana’s roadside gas-station restaurant for a meal, he meets the owner’s young spouse, Giovanna.
Ossessione’s bleak worldview was a flagrant challenge to the Fascist vision of Italy during this period. In this context, Ossessione faced great distribution and exhibition obstacles, with the Fascists at one point even cutting and destroying prints of the film.
“Ossessione” was neorealism born out of pulpy domestic desperation. Debatably the first film in a movement more notable for depicting rubble-strewn postwar streets, “Ossessione” chose to enter inside the era’s sheets.
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- Industrie Cinematografiche Italiane (ICI)
- Luchino Visconti
Condemned to a loveless marriage, the dejected housewife, Giovanna, sees a ray of light shine in her miserable life when the alluring vagabond, Gino, happens upon her boorish husband's truck-stop roadhouse.
Dec 31, 2019 · Visconti's 1943 movie Ossessione took a new approach to crime films. Chris Flackett looks back at the triumph of Neo-Realism over Film Noir.
Ossessione 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.
