The Public Woman

(1984)

★ 6 IMDb · 62 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1984

Runtime: 113 мин

Country: France

Director: Andrzej Żuławski

Cast: Valérie Kaprisky, Франсис Юстер, Ламбер Вильсон, Патрик Бошо, Жизель Паскаль, Roger Dumas, Diane Delor, Jean-Paul Farré, Оливье Ашар, Ивелин Айо

Plot

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.