The plot of Possession is not limited to an autobiographical description of a difficult breakup, separation and marital disintegration in family relations - at that time Zulawski also experienced a final separation from Poland. Two houses in the film - the modern one, which is Mark and Anna's apartment, and the old abandoned house in Kreuzberg, where Anna hides the squid-like creature - are located next to the Wall. The film contains elements of a spy thriller. Mark, an intelligence agent, leaves his job for his family. Anna leaves her family to become an "agent of the dark forces". The confrontation ends with death for both, and in the last frames of the film, there is a direct allusion (the sounds of sirens and the rumble of explosions) on the armed conflict that began in the city divided in two, which could end in a nuclear apocalypse. Scholar Bartlomiej Paszylk writes that the metaphors present in the film also represent "a disintegrating country. The very fact that the film takes place in Cold War-era West Berlin is quite significant for the metaphor of divorce-the wall that separates it from East Berlin being a symbol of disconnection of what was once united-but [Zulawski's] additional intention might have been for the Berlin wall to symbolize the Iron Curtain, and for Germany to symbolize Poland, a country he had to leave in order to keep making movies."

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