POSSESSION
- 124 min
- France, West-Germany
- Retrospective
- 18 years
- 3 Screenings
The spy Mark returns home to West Berlin to discover that his wife Anna wants a divorce. At first, Mark suspects that Anna has a lover, but after a series of increasingly bizarre events, he uncovers a horrifying truth beyond anything he could have imagined. What begins as a painful breakup turns into a nightmare.
Read morePolish director Andrzej Żuławski made Possession with Western European funding after facing censorship in Poland during the turbulent production of On the Silver Globe. The political vulnerability he carried into exile permeates the film: a collapsing marriage mirrors the disintegration of Eastern Europe, intensified by the presence of the Berlin Wall. The film’s desperation is further heightened by Żuławski’s own painful divorce at the time.
Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani deliver electrifying performances in this portrait of a relationship spiraling into madness. Possession is a shocking and disturbing horror film, steeped in bodily terror and suppressed rage – and its uncompromising style has earned it lasting cult status.
Another Zulawski-film, On the Silver Globe (1988), is also screened at Kosmorama 2026.
Screenings
Information
| Original title | POSSESSION | |
|---|---|---|
| Director | Andrzej ZULAWSKI | |
| Year | 1981 | |
| Length | 124 min | |
| Country | France, West-Germany | |
| Language | english | |
| Subtitles | norwegian | |
| Cast | SAM NEILL, ISABELLE ADJANI, MARGIT CARSTENSEN |
