POSSESSION

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"Lichtspiele Kalk" show in the film series "something weird cinema"...
West-Berlin Underground Cinema Bonus #01
Day of German Unity Special

POSSESSION

Director: Andrzej Żuławski
France, Germany 1981 | 123 min. | DCP | FSK 16
English original version with German subtitles

"The only true Berlin movie!" Jörg Buttgereit

"It is this directness, this clear and present horror that makes POSSESSION so great and singular. Filmed in West Berlin, the film bears both the scars of World War II and the botched reconstructive surgery of the city's Cold War division. A more politically minded film might have looked to the Wall as a metaphor for the disruptive and destructive separation between the couple. But POSSESSION, like a Stephen King novel, consumes and obliterates social anxieties in favor of the primal." Jake Cole, Movien Mezzanine (2016)

"Andrzej Żuławski's cinematic tour-de-force can hardly be put into words: Isabelle Adjani, who plays ecstatically and as if possessed to the point of complete physical exhaustion; a young Sam Neill, who delivers one of the best performances of his career; Bruno Nuytten, whose unleashed, restless camera captures the feverish story up close; special creature effects by Oscar winner Carlo Rambaldi ("Alien", "E.T.", "Dune"); the divided Berlin as the perfect setting for Anna and Mark's emotional state of emergency - all this results in a film that goes beyond all categories: cinematic art, marital drama, paranoid thriller, horror film, monster movie - a bit of everything, and yet much more. You can't describe it. You have to experience it!" Image disturbance

Price information:

Tickets at the Box Office or in advance via www.lichtspiele-kalk.de ... Reservation by telephone on 0221 29 49 49 79 ... Admission € 9.00 // reduced € 8.00 (students, apprentices, school / FSJ / people under 25 / guild pass) // Cologne Pass € 7.00