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Auction History Result e085 OSSESSIONE linen Italian photobusta movie poster '43 Visconti Date Sold 10/19/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Italian Photobusta Movie Poster (measures 19 3/4" x 28") (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 Italian photobusta measures 19 3/4" x 28" and is linenbacked. Also note that this is a rare "country of origin" poster for this Italian movie! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. This poster was linenbacked, and one of the following is true: either the poster had very minor defects, and was well backed, OR it had more significant defects, but they were well restored, OR it had some minor defects that were not completely restored, and are somewhat noticeable. You can tell which of the above is the case for this particular poster by reading our "pre-restoration" description and also by looking at our "super-sized" image of the actual poster (we are the only major auction company we know of that gives accurate detailed pre-restoration information about linenbacked posters to our bidders, but we wish everyone did!). There were areas of paper loss and tears around the edges of the poster, in the blank borders only. The poster is well linenbacked but the person who did so pretty much just mounted the poster and left the borders alone. If they bothered the new owner of the poster, a talented restorer could easily touch them up without rebacking the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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