Obsessions

Summary

A hole in the wall of a rented room in Amsterdam is the starting point of this English-language 'sex and suspense mystery', as Pim de la Parra defines his first feature film, inspired by Hitchcock and a variation on the Rear Window theme.

The film's events pick up when a painting falls from the wall. The tenant of the room, a medical student, peeks through the tiny opening at his neighbour. What he sees quickly makes him get his text books. It is not only sex that stirs his curiosity. Hidden out of sight, he witnesses puzzling and disturbing events, all pointing to crime. While the student gets more and more involved in the mystery, his fiancée, a journalist, receives an assignment from her newspaper to report on a murder case. Before long it appears that they are both involved in the same event. Happenings follow one another with increasing speed until a completely unexpected twist in the story brings it to a surprising conclusion.

Information

original title
Obsessions
foreign release title
Besessen - Das Loch in der Wand
alternative title
Bezeten
Bezeten - Het gat in de muur
Het gat in de muur
production year
1969
censorship date
01-10-1969
first screening
09-10-1969
country
Germany, Netherlands
geographical names
category
Fiction
applicant inspection
dutch rental (original)
production company

Images

Crew

Technical notations

original length
2482
censorship length
2482
sound
Sound
colour
Colour
format
35mm
acts
90

Resources

Centrale Commissie voor de Filmkeuring (Nationaal Archief; L1126)

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