Directed by:
Andrzej ZulawskiScreenplay:
Andrzej ZulawskiCinematography:
Bruno NuyttenComposer:
Andrzej KorzyńskiCast:
Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennent, Leslie Malton, Margit Carstensen, Gerd Neubert, Johanna Hofer, Carl Duering, Barbara Stanek, Harry Riebauer (more)VOD (1)
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Set in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, infused with Cold War-era paranoia and tension, Possession is a film that defies classification. One of the most tortured portraits of a disintegrating marriage ever presented on screen, visionary director Andrzej Żuławski masterfully blends horror and thriller conventions into an utterly unique cinema experience drawing on his own traumatic divorce and creative blacklisting in his native Poland. Spy Mark (Sam Neil) returns to West Berlin after a mission to find that his wife Anna (Isabelle Adjani) wants a divorce. She is having an affair, but insists that isn't the reason. When Mark hires a private detective to get to the truth, an even more disturbing secret is uncovered Anna keeps a separate apartment housing an otherworldly, tentacled creature with a ravenous sexual appetite. So continues the descent into a nightmarish maze of jealousy, carnality devoid of satisfaction, insanity, terror and murder where identity and reality are almost impossible to distinguish. (Umbrella Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Isabelle Adjani
France
Best movies:
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) - a.f.
The Tenant (1976)
One Deadly Summer (1983)
Sam Neill
UK
Best movies:
Jurassic Park (1993)
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
The Piano (1993)
Heinz Bennent
German Empire
Best movies:
From the Life of the Marionettes (1980) (TV movie)
Die Wildente (1976)
Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness (1979)
Leslie Malton
USA
Best movies:
Der Zauberberg (1982)
Possession (1981)
Offroad (2012)
Margit Carstensen
German Empire
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Martha (1974) (TV movie)
Satan's Brew (1976)
Gerd Neubert
Best movies:
Possession (1981)
Johanna Hofer
German Empire
Best movies:
I Only Want You to Love Me (1976) (TV movie)
Der Fußgänger (1973)
Veronika Voss (1982)
Carl Duering
German Empire
Best movies:
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
Barbara Stanek
German Empire
Best movies:
Possession (1981)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Van de Velde: Die vollkommene Ehe (1968)
Harry Riebauer
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Great Escape (1963)
The Story of Little Mook (1953)
Possession (1981)
Ilse Trautschold
German Empire
Best movies:
Possession (1981)
Schloß Gripsholm (1963)
Shaun Lawton
Best movies:
The Keeper (2018)
The Tunnel (2001)
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Dragomir Stanojevic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Unseen Wonder (1984)
Balkan Spy (1984)
The Black Bomber (1992)
Thomas Frey
Austria
Best movies:
Possession (1981)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Ruby Cairo (1992)
Herbert Chwoika
Best movies:
Possession (1981)
Wild Geese II (1985)
Judgment in Berlin (1988)
Maximilian Rüthlein
Best movies:
Possession (1981)
Didi - Und die Rache der Enterbten (1985)
Didi - Der Doppelgänger (1984)