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The Public Woman

5.9 average rating
5.9
French / 113 MIN. / 1984

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Valérie KapriskyFrancis HusterLambert WilsonPatrick BauchauGisèle PascalRoger DumasDiane DelorJean-Paul FarréOlivier AchardYveline AilhaudMichel AlbertiniMarianne BaslerNathalie BécueLucas BelvauxRené Bériard

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