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The Public Woman
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.
Cast
- Valérie Kaprisky as Ethel
- Francis Huster as Lucas Kessling
- Lambert Wilson as Milan Mliska
- Patrick Bauchau as Ethel's Father
- Gisèle Pascal as Gertrude
- Roger Dumas as André
- Diane Delor as Elena Mliska
- Jean-Paul Farré as Pierre
- Olivier Achard as 1st Assistant Director
- Yveline Ailhaud as Rachel
- Michel Albertini as Maurice
- Marianne Basler as Young Anarchist
Details
- Director
- Andrzej Żuławski
- Released
- June 16, 1984
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Genres
- Drama
- Studio
- Hachette-Fox Productions
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 6.0 / 10 from 63 votes
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