The Public Woman
TMDB 6
Drama
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.
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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.
Drama
Trailers & More
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.
- Directors
- Andrzej Żuławski
- Producers
- René Cleitman
- Cast and Characters
- Valérie Kaprisky (Ethel), Francis Huster (Lucas Kessling), Lambert Wilson (Milan Mliska), Patrick Bauchau (Ethel's Father), Gisèle Pascal (Gertrude), Roger Dumas (André), Diane Delor (Elena Mliska), Jean-Paul Farré (Pierre)
- Languages
- French