National Theatre Live: Obsession

May. 11,2017      
Rating:
6.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Gino is a drifter, down-at-heel and magnetically handsome. At a road side restaurant he encounters husband and wife, Joseph and Hanna. Irresistibly attracted to each other, Gino and Hanna begin a fiery affair and plot to murder her husband. But, in this chilling tale of passion and destruction, the crime only serves to tear them apart.

Jude Law as  Gino
Halina Reijn as  Hanna
Chukwudi Iwuji as  The Priest/The Inspector
Robert de Hoog as  Johnny
Aysha Kala as  Anita

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