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Synopsis: During a secretive business trip away, Mark learns that his wife Anna is growing restless in what he believed was their happy marriage. Upon his return home, he learns from her that she wants a divorce. They both go through a series of different emotions related to their situation, Mark's which is generally obsessive about learning why Anna, who he still loves, wants the divorce, and Anna's which is generally increasingly histrionic in getting away from Mark. Caught in the middle is their infant son Bob, who Mark uses as a gage to Anna's mental state. Anna states that her want for the divorce is not because of another man, but Mark finds out that Anna has a lover named Heinrich. In the meantime, Mark also meets Bob's teacher Helen, who looks exactly like Anna, but is her polar opposite in temperament. Starting a relationship with Helen lessens his obsession with Anna. But as Mark and Anna's encounters together reach more emotional and violent levels, Mark, with help of a private invest
Genre: Drama, Horror
Director(s): Andrzej Zulawski
Production: Anchor Bay Entertainment
  5 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
R
Year:
1981
124 min
8,469 Views


Then there's something else,

you must tell me.

Why are you afraid to tell me?

Are you afraid of me?

Are you afraid I'll get mad

again and beat you?

Are you afraid I won't like you?

Yes.

Anna, help me!

Help me!

Anna, if Bob..!

If Bob, remember!

Good Christ, remember!

It'll be the way you want it.

It'll be the way you want it...

Hold it.

You don't have to say

anything you don't want to.

You're my whole family.

I have to go now.

-Could you want for Bob?

I can't now.

Maybe we can both go

and pick him up at school.

I can't.

It doesn't hurt.

No.

I got your wife's address,

it's in Kreuzberg,

Sebastianstrasse 87, first floor.

She seems to be alone.

You want me to check this now?

I'm sorry to bother you, miss, I'm

from the building manager's office.

We had a complaint about some

broken window somewhere,

and the glass falling down on

the sidewalk. -Is that what it is?

I'm afraid I have to check your windows.

But I c... can assure you they're alright!

How can you be so sure? I just...

I just saw you come in.

It'll only take a moment.

-I don't want you to be here!

I quite understand, miss,

but it's me or the police.

A lady got hurt down the

sidewalk, a Turkish w... woman.

Now, you might say she

shouldn't be here in the first place,

but she lodged a complaint, so

what can I do about it?

Nothing.

Please.

Is it okay?

Moment.

So?

-Excuse me, the bathroom.

The bathroom doesn't have a window.

You sure?

-Absolutely.

Some bathrooms have

windows this side of the house.

Not in this one.

I'm afraid I still have to check it.

Before someone else gets...

-Would you care for a glass of wine?

Wine?

-Yes.

I'm afraid I ...

Yes, wine!

-I'm afraid you...

Oh, come on, don't be so formal!

Miss, it doesn't make any sense,

I've got k... kids...

I only came for the window.

Sorry, miss.

I still have to look.

Broke!

Was ist das?

How long?

Ages and ages. Much longer than I could.

I'm sorry to bother you so late.

May I see your wife?

No, she went out.

That's not entirely true, she...

She doesn't live with us any longer.

It's about Bob.

-Ah, Bob!

Bob is fine.

He's just beaten the world

record in tub diving.

Hello.

-Cut it out, Bob.

Look...

Would you be so kind, he's...

He's actually been in the

bath for about an hour.

Yes, of course.

I have called many times.

I wanted to discuss with you

the redistribution of our parts

in this fundamentally vulgar

structure, the triangle.

In other words, where is she?

I've been giving a great deal of thought

to the illogical aspects of your

anger and your fear, and...

Is Anna with you?

-And if...?

I'd only ask to have a talk with her.

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