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The Public Woman

★ 6.2

1984 | 113 min | France

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.

Andrzej Żuławski

Director

Andrzej Żuławski

Francis Huster

Francis Huster

as Lucas Kessling

Lambert Wilson

Lambert Wilson

as Milan Mliska

Patrick Bauchau

Patrick Bauchau

as Ethel's Father