Ossessione

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Ossessione (1943) was Visconti's first feature and a forerunner of post-war neo-realism. Ossessione is a film about the destructive power of sexual passion. A man turns up by chance at a roadside country inn, stays on as a labourer and falls in love (or in desire) with the innkeeper's wife and she with him. Tragedy ensues.