eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 7g532 OSSESSIONE Italian photobusta '43 Luchino Visconti classic, Clara Calamai & Girotti! Date Sold 9/22/2009Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Italian Photobusta Movie Poster (pbusta; measures 19 1/2" x 27 3/4") (Learn More) Ossessione (literally translates to "Obsession"), the classic 1943 Luchino Visconti Italian romantic infidelity crime murder thriller (written by Visconti and others, based on James Cain's classic "The Postman Always Rings Twice", but they did not pay Cain, so he was uncredited, and the film was not released in the U.S. until the 1970s because of this!; the movie follows the source novel closely, with a drifter getting a job at an inn run by an older man and his young beautiful wife, and the woman lures him into an affair and then convinces him to kill her husband) starring Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Juan de Landa, Dhia Cristiani, and Elio Marcuzzo. Note that this movie, Visconti's first, predated the neorealistic classics, "Open City" and "The Bicycle Thief", and was very influential in the Italian cinema that arose during the end of the Italian participation at the end of World War II. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is a rare "country of origin" poster for this Italian movie! Also note that this poster was folded down the middle at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: good to very good. There was a 6" tear in the left of the top border that was repaired with tape from the back and the edges of the poster are fragile and there is tiny paper loss in the blank borders. After a simple linenbacking by a talented professional, the poster will look great, and it will require only a tiny amount of paint restoration within the image. Learn More about condition grades
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