Possession

Name: Possession
Director: Andrzej Żuławski
Released: 1981-05-27T00:00:00+00:00
Rating: 7.3

1981 · TMDB 7.3

Directed by Andrzej Żuławski

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

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Andrzej Zulawski's feverish horror about a woman's descent into madness and monstrous infidelity in Cold War Berlin, a film of raw emotion and body horror that defies easy description.

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Director · Andrzej Żuławski Producer · Marie-Laure Reyre Writer · Andrzej Żuławski Cinematography · Bruno Nuytten Composer · Andrzej Korzyński Editor · Suzanne Lang-Willar Editor · Marie-Sophie Dubus

Runtime: 124 min
Released: 1981-05-27
Studio: Gaumont
Country: France
Language: English
TMDB score: 7.3

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Position 7 of 8

Andrzej Zulawski's feverish horror about a woman's descent into madness and monstrous infidelity in Cold War Berlin, a film of raw emotion and body horror that defies easy description.

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Position 6 of 8

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