(Ossessione – Von Liebe besessen | Les amants diaboliques)
by Luchino Visconti
Italy 1942/43
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Director:
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Luchino Visconti | |
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Executive Producer:
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Libero Solaroli | |
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Production Companies:
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Industrie Cinematografiche Italiane | |
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Screenplay:
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Antonio Pietrangeli, Alberto Moravia, Giuseppe de Santis, Luchino Visconti, Mario Alicata, Gianni Puccini (from the novel The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain) | |
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Cinematographer:
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Aldo Tonti, Domenico Scala; Gianni Di Venanzo (camera operator) (b/w, 1.37:1) | |
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Editor:
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Mario Serandrei | |
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Music Score:
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Giuseppe Rosati | |
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Art Director:
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Gino Rosati | |
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Costume Designer:
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Maria de Matteis | |
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Cast:
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Massimo Girotti (Gino), Clara Calamai (Giovanna Bragana), Juan De Landa (Bragana), Elio Marcuzzo (Lo Spagnuolo), Dhia Cristiani (Anita) | |
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Runtime:
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143 min (3923 m)
Germany 103 min (2818 m), USA 112 min |
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Premiere:
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16 May 1943 in Rome |
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"... a work of extraordinary beauty, in which the influence of Renoir can be detected and appreciated in the merging of character and landscape, and the stunning lyricism of the camerawork. ... recognized as the first true neorealist film ..."
— Pacific Film Archive "Visconti achieved in Obsession a magnificent linkage between his tragic protagonists and their environment. ... it prepared Italian filmmakers, if not the Italian public or the critics, for an entirely different intellectual and aesthetic climate in which to work." "... le film laisse une impression globale de laconisme, de réserve, de sécheresse, qui l'a empêché de vieillir." |
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Distribution:
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Image Entertainment Region 0 (North America) |
Films sans Frontières Region 2 (France) |
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Runtime:
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133:56 min Possibly a PAL-to-NTSC transfer? Or cut by 6 mins? (+ 4% PAL Speedup = 140 min??) |
134:33 min (+ 4% PAL Speedup = 140 min) | |
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Video:
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1.33:1/4:3 FullScreen Average Bitrate: 6.92 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s |
1.31:1/4:3 FullScreen Average Bitrate: 7.72 mb/s PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s |
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Audio:
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Italiano Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono | Italiano MPEG-2 2.0 Mono | |
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Subtitles:
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English | Français, Deutsch, English | |
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Features:
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None | • Filmography Luchino Visconti | |
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DVD Release Date: 16 July 2002 Keep Case Chapters: 14 DVD Encoding: NTSC Region 0 SS-SL/DVD-5 |
DVD Release Date: 15 December 1999 Keep Case Chapters: 6 DVD Encoding: PAL Region 2 SS-SL/DVD-5 |
Frame 1: Menu
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Average Bitrate Region 1:
6.92 mb/s
Average Bitrate Region 2:
7.72 mb/s
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Last update: 27 Sep 2002