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Possession (1981) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
Fantasporto Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
Italian ( Mono )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
119 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Special Edition
Trailer(s)
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1981 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Andrzej Zulawski

Written By:
Frederic Tuten
Andrzej Zulawski

Actors:
Isabelle Adjani ..... Anna/Helen
Sam Neill ..... Mark
Margit Carstensen ..... Margit Gluckmeister
Heinz Bennent ..... Heinrich
Johanna Hofer ..... Heinrich's mother
Carl Duering ..... Detective
Shaun Lawton ..... Zimmermann
Michael Hogben ..... Bob
Maximilian Rüthlein ..... Man with pink socks
Thomas Frey ..... Pink sock's acolyte
Leslie Malton ..... Sara, woman with club foot
Gerd Neubert ..... Subway drunk
Kerstin Wohlfahrt
Ilse Bahrs
Karin Mumm
Herbert Chwoika
Barbara Stanek
Ilse Trautschold
Harry Riebauer ..... Man at the conference (uncredited)
Dragomir Stanojevic-Bata Kameni ..... Taxi driver (uncredited)

Synopsis:

Usually misattributed to the horror genre, this challenging and highly unusual drama stars Isabelle Adjani as a young woman who forsakes her husband (Sam Neill) and her lover (Heinz Bennent) for a bizarre, tentacled creature that she keeps in a run-down Berlin apartment. In the beginning, her husband knows nothing about the monster and sincerely believes that his wife is insane. He has her tailed by private detectives, whom she kills and feeds to the creature. Still unaware of what has happened, the husband contends with the reserved and inadvertently seductive presence of his wife's look-alike (also played by Adjani), a schoolteacher who frequently comes to tutor his son while his wife is away. Though tempted by her quiet goodness and beauty, he is still passionately in love with his wife and even after he finds out about the murders, he stays by her side and helps her conceal her crimes. Filmed amidst the oppressive backdrop of the Berlin Wall by the expatriate Polish director Andrzej Zulawski (who was unable to work in his homeland after too many clashes with the authorities), the picture is so relentlessly intense and so deliberately esoteric, that most viewers would find it too hard to connect with. Still its symbolism, its unbridled and flashy directorial style, and the tour de force performance by Isabelle Adjani earned this unique tale a cult following in Europe.

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

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