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Possession(Movie, 1981)

2h 3min | Genre: Horror
PossessionRating: 3.7/5 (with 468468 votes)
Possession is a 1981 psychological horror drama film directed by Andrzej Żuławski and written by Żuławski and Frederic Tuten. The plot obliquely follows the relationship between an international spy (Sam Neill) and his wife (Isabelle Adjani), who begins exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking for a divorce. Possession, an international co-production between France and West Germany, was filmed in West Berlin in 1980. Żuławski's only English-language film, it premiered at the 34th Cannes Film Festival, where Adjani won the Best Actress award for her performance. The screenplay was written during the painful divorce of Żuławski from actress Malgorzata Braunek. While not commercially successful either in Europe or in the United States, with the latter only receiving a heavily edited cut on its initial release, the film eventually acquired cult status and has been more positively appraised in later years. ()
Movie poster of Possession

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Awards & Nominations for Possession

César Award for Best Actress

About Possession

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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Trailer for Possession + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Additional Information

Production countries: Germany, France
Original language: French (FR)
Spoken languages: German (DE), English (EN), French (FR)
Translated into 25 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Burmese (MY), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 05/27/1981
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Una mujer poseída"
"Обсебване"
"魔鬼狂爱"
"La posesión"
"Andrzej Zulawski's Possession"
"Mia gynaika daimonismeni"
"Megszállottság"
"The Night the Screaming Stops"
"Opetanie"
"Posednutost"
"The Night the Screaming Stops"

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Other movies with this title: Possession (1973), Possession (UY, 1986), Possession (CA, 1987), Possession (GB, 1991), Possession (GB/US, 2002), Possession (2007), Possession (US, 2009), Possession (DE, 2012), Possession (PH, 2013), Possession (2016), Possession (TW, 2018), Possession (NO, 2022)

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