Possession (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Possession |
| Original title | Possession |
| Country of production |
France , Germany |
| original language |
English , German |
| Publishing year | 1981 |
| length | 123 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 (German DVD re-edition) |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andrzej Żuławski |
| script | Andrzej Zulawski, Frederic Tuten |
| production | Marie-Laure Reyre |
| music | Andrzej Korzyński |
| camera | Bruno Nuytten |
| cut |
Marie-Sophie Dubus , Suzanne Lang-Willar |
| occupation | |
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Possession is the fourth feature film by Polish director Andrzej Żuławski . It is primarily about a marriage crisis in divided Berlin , but in the end it remains open to interpretation. The film never came into cinemas in Germany . In the USA , only a 45-minute version was available until the DVD was released . In the UK , the film was considered video nasty .
The German label Bildstören released an uncut DVD in 2009 with a running time of 119 min. (25 B./Sec.) The FSK released the film from the age of 16.
action
Mark and Anna live with their son Bob in divided Berlin in the 1980s. Your marriage is over. Mark, a freak of order and control who works for an intelligence agency, is rarely home. Anna has become estranged from him. Again and again there are violent arguments between the two, from which the child in particular suffers. Anna has entered into an affair with Heinrich, an esoteric who thinks he is superior and irresistible. When Mark learns of the relationship, he leaves Anna, only to return to her after a few weeks of alcohol delirium. However, he finds out that Anna has neglected little Bob and turned the apartment into a mess. She disappears again and again and can then be found neither with Heinrich nor with her friend Margit. Mark finds another woman who is more in line with his ideas: Bob's teacher Helen, who seems like Anna's face. Since Mark assumes that Anna still has a second lover, he appoints the private detective Zimmermann on her. Anna's partner follows Anna to an apartment in an old building in Kreuzberg, right by the wall. He enters the apartment under a pretext and discovers a slimy, tentacle-armored creature that is obviously hidden and tended by Anna.
Anna kills the man and chops up the corpse. Zimmermann suffers the same fate when he tracks down his partner. Mark suspects something and sends Heinrich to the old building too. Anna stabs her lover with a knife. He escapes, but is badly wounded. He meets with Mark, who uses the opportunity to murder Heinrich. He makes it look like an accident. Then he blows up the abandoned old apartment - Anna has already returned with the creature to the shared apartment and has killed Margit, who was supposed to take care of Bob. Mark wants to help Anna. She should hide the creature in Margit's apartment. Mark disposes of Margit's body and brings Bob to Helen. The next day, Mark is contacted by his clients, but he doesn't want anything more to do with them. However, they know about his actions and want to arrest Anna. Mark helps her escape with a spectacular action, but is shot. He flees, Anna follows him with the now fully developed creature. The being is a double Mark. Anna and Mark die in the hail of bullets from the police or commit suicide.
The double doesn't mind the shots. He goes to Helen's apartment. Before she can let him in, sirens sound and war seems to break out.
criticism
The lexicon of international films judged the production to be “a highly irritating work of Kafkaesque dimensions , at best filled with a fragmentary plot .” In particular, however, the “self-sacrificing play of the two main actors, the unsteady camera and the grotesque special effects” made it “Art cinema that moves sustainably from the absurd theater of violence”.
Awards
- At the Cannes Film Festival in 1981, Isabelle Adjani was awarded in the Best Actress category, Andrzej Zulawski was represented in the competition for the Palme d'Or .
- Isabelle Adjani was also honored as best actress at the French César film award in 1982.
Web links
- Possession in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Trivia
The scenes with the tentacle beings take place in Sebastianstraße 87 , which still exists almost unchanged (as of February 2020). The Berlin Wall ran through Sebastianstrasse until 1989. Not far away, at the corner of Luckauer Strasse and Oranienstrasse, a scene takes place in today's restaurant "Stiege".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Possession. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .