Possession (Blu-ray)
Notorious for the demands it placed on its stars, Isabelle Adjani''s searing performance earned her the Best Actress award at Cannes in 1981. Sam Neill described it as the most extreme film he ever made.
Savagely cut for the US market by bewildered distributors, and banned in the UK for almost two decades, it remains every bit as powerful and shocking today as it was on release.
Set in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, infused with Cold War-era paranoia and tension, Possession is a film that defies classification. One of the most tortured portraits of a disintegrating marriage ever presented on screen, visionary director Andrzej Żuławski masterfully blends horror and thriller conventions into an utterly unique cinema experience - drawing on his own traumatic divorce and creative blacklisting in his native Poland.
Region B Blu-ray (Australian compatible)
Special Features
- A new Producer approved 4K restoration
- 2- Disc Edition
- Includes the North American Re-edit: newly restored from an archive print
- New Audio Commentary by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Alison Taylor
- Audio Commentary by Director Andrzej Żuławski moderated by Daniel Bird
- Audio Commentary by Frederic Tuten moderated by Daniel Bird
- New Audio Commentary by Daniel Bird and Manuela Lazic (The North American Re-edit)
- The Horror of Normality: Guillermo del Toro on Possession
- The Shadow We Carry: Kat Ellinger on Possession
- Repossessed: The Film’s UK and US reception
- Andrzej Żuławski: Director: archive documentary
- A Divided City: The Berlin locations
- The Sounds of Possession: an interview with Composer Andrzej Korzynski
- Our Friend in the West: an interview with Producer Christian Ferry
- Basha: a featurette on poster artist Barbara ‘Basha’ Baranowska
- The Other Side of The Wall: The Making of Possession
- Archive interview with Andrzej Żuławski
- Deleted Scenes
- Theatrical Trailer