Possession

1981
16
2 Std. 4 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,3/10

47.438

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

1.185

334

A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.

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Psychological Horror Supernatural Horror Drama Horror

Eine Frau beginnt ein zunehmend verstörendes Verhalten an den Tag zu legen, nachdem sie ihren Mann um die Scheidung gebeten hat. Der Verdacht der Untreue weicht bald etwas viel Unheilvollere... Alles lesenEine Frau beginnt ein zunehmend verstörendes Verhalten an den Tag zu legen, nachdem sie ihren Mann um die Scheidung gebeten hat. Der Verdacht der Untreue weicht bald etwas viel Unheilvollerem.Eine Frau beginnt ein zunehmend verstörendes Verhalten an den Tag zu legen, nachdem sie ihren Mann um die Scheidung gebeten hat. Der Verdacht der Untreue weicht bald etwas viel Unheilvollerem.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,3/10

47.438

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

1.185

334

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 5 Gewinne & 4 Nominierungen insgesamt

Wissenswertes
Isabelle Adjani is reported as saying: "Possession is only the type of film you can do when you are young. He [Zulawski] is a director that makes you sink into his world of darkness and his demons. It is okay when you are young, because you are excited to go there. His movies are very special, but they totally focus on women, as if they are lilies. It was quite an amazing film to do, but I got bruised, inside out. It was exciting to do. It was no bones broken, but it was like, 'How or why did I do that?' I don't think any other actress ever did two films with him."

Patzer
(at around 54 mins) In the kitchen scene where Anna cuts herself with an electric knife, Mark picks it up and starts slicing his left arm multiple times. The next day, he is in the kitchen again with his sleeves rolled up, but there are no cuts on his arm. Given the surreal nature of this film, this could have been planned. The camera focuses on the supposedly sliced arm. One can only speculate what message was intended, if in fact the "gaff" was intentional.

Zitate
Anna: I can't exist by myself because I'm afraid of myself, because I'm the maker of my own evil.

Alternative Versionen
The film was severely cut and re-edited for its American release - those versions vary from 81 to 97 minutes. The original is barely recognizable so try to catch the full version.

Verbindungen
Edited into Style is Substance: Possession (1981) - Sexuality and Family Structure (2018)

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Ausgewählte Rezension

8/10

She's the maker of her own evil

Surely other Zulawski movies like "La femme publique" and "L'important c'est d'aimer" have dark, disturbing moments, too, but "Possession" must be the most terrifying of them all. It all begins perfectly normal, like something that could happen every day, anywhere in your neighborhood: Anna (Adjani) leaves Mark (Sam Neill), she confesses she found a new lover already a year ago, and then the breaking up of their marriage naturally affects their little son, too. "I'm the maker of my own evil", Anna says once, and the evil she creates is visualized literally as a slimy demon, whereas Mark "creates" a school teacher looking exactly like Anna (and also played by Adjani), a woman so pure and innocent they go to bed together without having sex, and of course the idealized woman immediately takes care of his son ... and the dish washing ;-). The torment and hysteria of destroyed love is perfectly set in a Berlin before reunification, with the wall appearing countless times in the frame: an obvious symbol that divides what used to belong together, just like the characters in the movie. The "possessed" Adjani delivers an unforgettable performance, but if you are going to watch this, be prepared for more blood and guts than in "The Exorcist".