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The Public Woman (1984)
Directed by Andrzej Żuławski
Drama · 1h 53m
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
Ethel
Francis Huster
Lucas Kessling
Lambert Wilson
Milan Mliska
Patrick Bauchau
Ethel's Father
Gisèle Pascal
Gertrude
Roger Dumas
André
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Diane Delor
Elena Mliska
Jean-Paul Farré
Pierre
Olivier Achard
1st Assistant Director
Yveline Ailhaud
Rachel
Michel Albertini
Maurice
Marianne Basler
Young Anarchist
Crew
- Director
- Andrzej Żuławski
- Writer
- Dominique Garnier, Andrzej Żuławski
- Novel
- Dominique Garnier
- Director of Photography
- Sacha Vierny
- Original Music Composer
- Alain Wisniak
- Editor
- Marie-Sophie Dubus
- Producer
- René Cleitman
Details
- Original title
- La Femme publique
- Release date
- 1984-06-16
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- France
- Production
- Hachette-Fox Productions