Archive

World Fantastic Cinema

Possessed

Anders Ronnow-Klarlund

Denmark1999 99min 35mm Color

Synopsis

A mysterious stranger arrives by plane from Romania, and dies in Denmark from a mysterious infection with bizarre Ebola-like symptoms. Soren is an ambitious junior doctor who devotes his efforts towards tracing the source off the infection. He sets off to Romania with Sarah, a medical student. They are searching for the boy who infected the stranger. After a series of nightmarish events, Soren succeeds in obtaining a biopsy of the boy’s buried body. Science believes it has triumphed, but now the catastrophe begins for real. Soren has discounted Stella Mala, the evil star that presages doom and which medical science is impotent in combating. As well, diabolical forces are on the loose in the form of a mysterious man. He spreads panic and Molotov cocktails with equal abandon. Who is this perpetrator of the flames?

Diretor

Anders Ronnow-Klarlund

Born 1971. Denmark. His directorial debut < The Eighteenth (1996)>has received a number of international prizes. Prior to this Ronnow-Klarlund worked within radio and produced for teloevision. He wrote and directed the short fiction film < Klondlike (94)>. Has directed four episodes of the popular telvision series < Taxa > for DRTV. is the director’s second feature film.