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The Public Woman (1984)

Directed by Andrzej Żuławski

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Overview

An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky’s ‘The Possessed’. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker into commiting a political assassination.

Length 113 minutes

Actors

Valérie Kaprisky | Francis Huster | Lambert Wilson | Patrick Bauchau | Giselle Pascal | Roger Dumas | Diane Delor | Jean-Paul Farré | Olivier Achard | Yveline Ailhaud | Michel Albertini | Marianne Basler | Nathalie Bécue | Lucas Belvaux | René Bériard