XXII:4) Luchino Visconti, OSSESSIONE/OBSESSION (1943, 140 Min)
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February 8, 2011 (XXII:4) Luchino Visconti, OSSESSIONE/OBSESSION (1943, 140 min) Directed by Luchino Visconti Written by Luchino Visconti, Mario Alicota, Giuseppe De Santis, Gianni Puccini, James M. Cain (novel) Cinematography by Domenico Scala, Aldo Tonti Original Music by Giuseppe Rosati Clara Calamai...Giovanna Bragana Massimo Girotti...Gino Costa Dhia Cristiani...Anita Elio Marcuzzo...Lo spagnolo Vittorio Duse...L'agente di polizia Michele Riccardini...Don Remigio Juan de Landa...Giuseppe Bragana Luchino Visconti (November 2, 1906, Milan, Lombardy, Italy – March 17, 1976, Rome, Italy) directed 14 feature films and wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for all of them: 1976 L'innocente, 1974 Conversation Piece, 1972 Ludwig, 1971 Rome 11:00, 1950 Under the Olive Tree, 1949 Bitter Rice, and Death in Venice, 1969 La caduta degli dei, 1967 The Stranger, 1940 Don Pasquale. He also directed 18 films, including 1968 I 1965 Sandra, 1963 The Leopard, 1960 Rocco and His Brothers, sette fratelli Cervi, 1967 How to Win a Billion... and Get Away with 1957 Le Notti Bianche, 1954 Senso, 1951 Bellissima, 1948 La It, 1967 Fury of Johnny Kid, 1965 I soldi, 1965 The Double Bed, Terra Trema, and 1943 Ossessione. 1965 I Kill, You Kill, 1964 Amore facile, 1962 The Attic, 1958 Il marito,1958 Carmela è una bambola, 1957 Honor Among Thieves, Giuseppe De Santis (February 11, 1917, Fondi, Latium, Italy – and 1951 Il capitano di Venezia. May 16, 1997, Rome, Italy) wrote or co-wrote 20 films, some of which are 1964 Attack and Retreat, 1960/I La garçonnière, 1958 James M. Cain (July 1, 1892, Annapolis, Maryland, USA – The Year Long Road, 1957 I fidanzati della morte, 1956 Men and October 27, 1977, University Park, Maryland, USA) was a novelist, Wolves, 1954 Days of Love, 1954 Angels of Darkness, 1953 A many of whose works were adapted for film, some of them more Husband for Anna , 1953 Riscatto, 1952 Rome 11:00, 1950 Under than once. Some of these adaptations are 2011 “Mildred Pierce” (in the Olive Tree, 1949 Bitter Rice, 1947 Caccia tragica, 1947 Ultimo production), 2004 Swing My Swing High, My Darling (novel The amore, 1946 Outcry, 1946 Desire, 1943 Ossessione, and 1940 Don Postman Always Rings Twice - uncredited), 1998 Szenvedély (novel Pasquale. He also directed 13 films, including 1964 Attack and The Postman Always Rings Twice), 1995 Girl in the Cadillac (novel Retreat, 1960/I La garçonnière, 1958 The Year Long Road, 1956 The Enchanted Isle), 1982 Butterfly (novel), 1981 The Postman Men and Wolves, 1954 Days of Love, 1953 A Husband for Anna, Always Rings Twice (novel), 1973 “Double Indemnity” (novel 1952 Rome 11:00, 1950 Under the Olive Tree, 1949 Bitter Rice, Double Indemnity in Three of a Kind), 1960 “Double Indemnity” and 1947 Caccia tragica. (1960) (novel Double Indemnity in Three of a Kind), 1956 “Mildred Pierce” (novel), 1954 “Double Indemnity” (novel), 1946 The Gianni Puccini (November 9, 1914 in Milan, Italy – December 3, Postman Always Rings Twice (novel), 1945 Mildred Pierce (novel 1968 in Rome, Italy) is credited for all or part of 35 screenplays, Mildred Pierce), 1944 Double Indemnity (novel Double Indemnity some of which are 1967 How to Win a Billion... and Get Away with in Three of a Kind), 1943 Ossessione (novel The Postman Always It, 1965 I Kill, You Kill, 1964 Love and Marriage, 1960 Rings Twice - uncredited), 1939 Le dernier tournant (novel The L'impiegato, 1958 The Year Long Road, 1957 Supreme Confession, Postman Always Rings Twice), and1934 She Made Her Bed (story 1957 Honor Among Thieves, 1956 Men and Wolves, 1954 Days of "The Baby in the Ice-Box") Love, 1954 Angels of Darkness, 1953 A Husband for Anna, 1952 Visconti—OSSESSIONE—2 Domenico Scala (March 26, 1903,Turin, Piedmont, Italy – 1976 L'innocente, 1974 The Kiss of Death, 1974 Cagliostro, 1972 December 25, 1989) was cinematographer for 60 films, some of Last Tango in Paris, 1969 Medea, 1969 The Red Tent, 1968 which were 1963 Colossus and the Headhunters, 1960 Un eroe del Teorema, 1967 “I promessi sposi”, 1965 Marco the Magnificent, nostro tempo, 1953 The Wayward Wife, 1953 Empty Eyes, 1952 Io, 1965 “La tua giovinezza”, 1965 “Il re”, 1963 Mafia alla sbarra, Amleto, 1950 Mountain Smugglers, 1950 Domenica d'agosto, 1950 1963 The Shortest Day, 1961 Duel of the Titans, 1960 The The Counterfeiters, 1948 Fuga in Francia, 1947 Cronaca near, Cossacks, 1960 Cavalcata selvaggia, 1959 Le notti dei Teddy Boys, 1945 Chi l'ha visto?, 1941 Se non son matti non li vogliamo, 1941 1959 Asphalt, 1959 Herod the Great, 1957 Goddess of Love, 1957 Le due tigri, 1941 Il signore a doppio petto, 1941 Un marito per il La bestia humana, 1955 Marguerite de la nuit, 1954 Senso, 1953 mese di aprile, 1940 Scarpe grosse, 1939 Le educande di Saint-Cyr, The Love of a Woman, 1953 Sins of Rome, 1952 Leathernose, 1952 1939 The Knight of San Marco, 1939 Il barone di Corbò, 1938 Rome 11:00, 1951 Fugitive in Trieste, 1950 Story of a Love Affair, Fireworks, 1933 Fanny, 1932 What Scoundrels Men Are!, 1932 The 1948 Anni difficili, 1947 Lost Youth, 1946 Desire, 1946 Shamed, Blue Fleet, and 1931 La segretaria private. 1943 Apparition, 1943 Ossessione, 1943/I Harlem, 1942 A Pilot Returns, 1941 Pirates of Malaya, 1941 The Story of Tosca, and Aldo Tonti (March 2, 1910, Rome, Italy – July 7, 1988, Rome, 1940 Dora Nelson. Italy) has 134 cinematographer credits, among which are 1979 Dhia Cristiani (June 27, 1921, Ashanti, 1977 Rene the Cane, Dovadola, Emilia-Romagna, Italy 1976 Une femme à sa fenêtre, – July 17, 1977, Rome, Italy) 1974 Tough Guys, 1974 Crazy appeared in 16 films: 1954 Tua Joe, 1973 Le guerriere dal seno per la vita, 1944 Zazà, 1943 nudo, 1972 The Valachi Papers, Addio, amore!, 1943 Sempre più 1971 The Designated Victim, difficile, 1943 Ossessione, 1943 1971 The Deserter, 1971 A Girl La statua vivente, 1942 Love in Australia, 1970 The Family, Story, 1942 Via delle cinque lune, 1970 Fortunata and Jacinta, 1942 Yes, Madam, 1942 Fari 1968 Bandits in Rome, 1967 nella nebbia, 1940 A Romantic Reflections in a Golden Eye, Adventure, 1940 Centomila 1966 The Treasure of San dollari, 1939 Due milioni per un Gennaro, 1965 Casanova 70, sorriso, 1939 Department Store, 1964 The Ape Woman, 1964 1939 Nobody's Land, and 1938 Castle of the Living Dead, 1962 Ettore Fieramosca. Damon and Pythias, 1961 Barabbas, 1960 The Savage Innocents, 1959 For the First Time, Elio Marcuzzo (July 27, 1917, Treviso, Veneto, Italy – July 28, 1959 Lost Souls, 1958 Tempest, 1957 Nights of Cabiria, 1954 The 1945, Breda di Piave, Veneto, Italy) appeared in 14 films: 1945 Ship of Condemned Women, 1952 The Greatest Love, 1950 Side Lettere al sottotenente, 1945 Carmen, 1944 Il cappello da prete, Street Story, 1949 Adam and Eve, 1949 The Mill on the Po, 1948 1943 Silenzio, si gira!, 1943 Ossessione, 1943 Il treno crociato, L'apocalisse, 1947 How I Lost the War, 1946 Roma città libera, 1943 Rita da Cascia, 1942 La signorina, 1942 Fedora, 1942 Yes, 1946 The Bandit, 1943 Ossessione, 1942 Merchant of Slaves, 1942 Madam, 1941 Nozze di sangue, 1940 I Met You Too Late, 1937 Il Fari nella nebbia, 1941 Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto, 1940 The feroce Saladino, and 1937 The Last Enemy. Knight of Kruja, 1939 Cardinal Messias, 1939 Diamonds, 1939 The Little Adventurers, 1938 Under the Southern Cross, and 1935 Vittorio Duse (March 21, 1916, Loreto, Ancona, Marche, Italy – Odette. June 2, 2005, Rome, Italy) appeared in 105 films and TV series, among them 2002 When in Rome, 2000 Fate un bel sorriso, 2000 Clara Calamai (September 7, 1909, Prato, Tuscany, Italy – “The Sopranos”, 1993 “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles”, September 21, 1998, Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy) appeared in 1992 Enchanted April, 1990 The Godfather: Part III, 1989 Queen 47 films, some of which were 1975 Deep Red, 1975 The Sinner, of Hearts, 1984 “The Octopus”, 1976 “Origins of the Mafia”, 1972 1958 Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, 1957 Le Notti Bianche, 1949 Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi, 1972 The Assassin of Rome, 1971 Sicilian Uprising, 1947 Ultimo amore, 1946 The Adulteress, 1945 “I racconti di Padre Brown”, 1970 Investigation of a Citizen Above Two Anonymous Letters, 1943 Henry IV, 1943 Ossessione, 1942 Le Suspicion, 1968 “L'affare Dreyfuss”, 1968 Galileo, 1967 The vie del cuore, 1941 L'avventuriera del piano di sopra, 1941 Pirates Stranger, 1965 The Possessed, 1965 “Antonio e Cleopatra”, 1963 of Malaya, 1941 Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto, 1940 Boccaccio, The Leopard, 1960 The Loves of Salammbo, 1954 Ultima illusione, 1939 L'eredità in Corsa, 1938 They've Kidnapped a Man, 1938 Il 1948 The Mysterious Rider, 1946 Outcry, 1945 Two Anonymous destino in tasca, and 1938 Pietro Micca. Letters, 1943 Ossessione, 1942 The Lion of Damascus, 1942 Girl of the Golden West, and 1941 Il cavaliere senza nome. Massimo Girotti (May 18, 1918, Mogliano, Macerata, Marche, Italy – January 5, 2003, Rome, Italy) appeared in 128 films, some Michele Riccardini (October 2, 1910, Perugia, Umbria, Italy – July of which are 2003 Facing Windows , 2000 “Senso di colpa”, 2000 24, 1978, Merate, Lecco, Italy) appeared in 53 films and TV “Der Kardinal - Der Preis der Liebe”, 1997 Un bel di' vedremo, dramas, among them 1973 “All'ultimo minuto”, 1972 “Pensaci, 1994 The Monster, 1990 Rebus, 1989 La révolution française, 1988 Giacomino!”, 1971 “I racconti di Padre Brown”,1967 La Bohème, 1985 The Berlin Affair, 1985 “Christopher Columbus”, “Caravaggio”, 1967 “I promessi sposi”, 1966 “Le inchieste del 1985 “Quo Vadis?”, 1976 “Origins of the Mafia”, 1976 Mr. Klein, commissario Maigret”, 1965 “Antonio e Cleopatra”, 1955 The Miller's Beautiful Wife, 1954 Ulysses, 1952 Rome 11:00, 1950 Visconti—OSSESSIONE—3 Under the Olive Tree, 1947 Lost Youth, 1943 Ossessione, 1943 La turned out films steadily but rather slowly from 1942 to 1976.