Possession (film, 1981)

Possession is a Franco-German film written and carried out by Andrzej Zulawski in 1981 and left on May 27th the same year to France.

Synopsis

Marc, played by Sam Neill, goes back at his place to Berlin whereas his Anna wife, played by Isabelle Adjani, decides to leave it. He suspects it of having a lover in the person of Heinrich, played by Heinz Bennent. But this one affirms to him that it also left it for another. Whereas their reports/ratios become increasingly tended with his wife, Marc realizes that his/her new lover is not human.

Data sheet

Title: Possession
original Title: Possession
Realization: Andrzej Zulawski
Scenario: Andrzej Zulawski and Frederic Tuten
Production: Marie-Laure Reyre
Music: Andrzej Korzynski
Photography: Bruno Nuytten
Assembly: Marie-Sophie Dubus and Suzanne Lang-Willar
Costumes: Ingrid Zoré
special Effects: Charles-Henri Rotated crops, Daniel Braunschweig and Carlo Rambaldi
Country of origin: France, Germany
Kind: Horror, Fantastic
Lasted: 123 minutes

Distribution

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

Price and rewards

Festival of film of Cannes:

Isabelle Adjani obtained the Price of female role (for Possession and Quartet) of the Cannes festival 1981.

The Césars:

Isabelle Adjani received César of the best actress in 1982.

Fantasporto:

Andrzej Zulawski obtained a special mention of the public
Isabelle Adjani to obtain the price of the Best Actress

São Paulo International Film Festival:

Andrzej Zulawski obtained the Price of Criticism

Around film

This film at turned summer with Berlin. The realizer wrote this film during a painful divorce.

This film can be regarded a film of horror but also as an allegory on the double.

This film had gone up for the diffusion with the the United States and was interdict of diffusion in the United Kingdom.

This film at summer compared with the film Chromosome 3 (The Brood) of David Cronenberg and with the Devils of Ken Russell.

External bonds

http://www.andrzej-zulawski.com/

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