The Public Woman

06/16/1984

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1hr 53min

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Drama

STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • Valérie Kaprisky
  • Francis Huster
  • Lambert Wilson
  • Patrick Bauchau
  • Gisèle Pascal

    Director

  • Andrzej Żuławski

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Hachette-Fox Productions

    Production Countries

  • France

LANGUAGES

  • French
  • German

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