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Directed by enigmatic Polish filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski, 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.

Product Identifiers

ProducerMarie-Laure Reyre

EAN5028836031864

eBay Product ID (ePID)102226880

Product Key Features

ActorIsabelle Adjani, Heinz Bennent, Margit Carstensen, Michael Hogben, Shaun Lawton, Sam Neill

Film/TV TitlePossession

DirectorAndrzej Zulawski

LanguageEnglish

Run Time118 Mins

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

Release Year2010

FormatDVD

FeaturesThe Other Side of the Wall: the Making of Possession\Interview with Director Andrzej Zulawski, Widescreen

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate18

Country/Region of ManufactureFrance

ComposerAndrzej Korzynski

Additional InformationUsually 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.

ReviewsMark Kermode - An unsung masterpiece... The film that prefigures everything that's in ANTICHRIST

ScreenwriterAndrzej Zulawski, Frederic Tuten

Special EffectsCarlo Rambaldi

Art DirectorHolger Gross

Sound sourceDolby Digital

EditorSuzanne Lang-Willar, Marie-Sophie Dubus

Movie/TV TitlePossession

Director of PhotographyBruno Nuytten

Consumer AdviceContains strong violence, sex and horror