--- title: 'Ossessione (1943)' type: 'film' director: 'Luchino Visconti' released: '1943-01-01' runtime_minutes: 140 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Crime' countries: - 'Italy' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/ossessione-1943' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035160/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Ossessione (1943) 1943 · 140 min · Drama, Crime · Italy ## Synopsis 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. It is often considered to be the first Italian neorealist film, though there is some debate about whether such a categorization is accurate. ## Credits - **Director:** [Luchino Visconti](https://cinepixo.com/people/luchino-visconti) - **Screenplay:** [Luchino Visconti](https://cinepixo.com/people/luchino-visconti), [Giuseppe De Santis](https://cinepixo.com/people/giuseppe-de-santis), [Antonio Pietrangeli](https://cinepixo.com/people/antonio-pietrangeli), [Alberto Moravia](https://cinepixo.com/people/alberto-moravia), [Gianni Puccini](https://cinepixo.com/people/gianni-puccini), [Mario Alicata](https://cinepixo.com/people/mario-alicata) - **Original Music Composer:** [Giuseppe Rosati](https://cinepixo.com/people/giuseppe-rosati-3) - **Director of Photography:** [Aldo Tonti](https://cinepixo.com/people/aldo-tonti) - **Editor:** [Mario Serandrei](https://cinepixo.com/people/mario-serandrei) ## Cast - [Elio Marcuzzo](https://cinepixo.com/people/elio-marcuzzo) - [Michele Riccardini](https://cinepixo.com/people/michele-riccardini) - [Massimo Girotti](https://cinepixo.com/people/massimo-girotti) - [Michael Balfour](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-balfour) - [Vittorio Duse](https://cinepixo.com/people/vittorio-duse) - [Juan de Landa](https://cinepixo.com/people/juan-de-landa) - [Dhia Cristiani](https://cinepixo.com/people/dhia-cristiani) - [Clara Calamai](https://cinepixo.com/people/clara-calamai) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/ossessione-1943 Film facts: Wikidata (Q547226); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.