The Public Woman (1984)1h53
Drama
Director Andrzej Żuławski
Also directed Possession, On the Silver Globe, That Most Important Thing: Love, and 12 more
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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Cast
Valérie Kaprisky
Francis Huster
Lambert Wilson
Patrick Bauchau
Gisèle Pascal
Roger Dumas- Diane Delor
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