Film

The Public Woman 1984

113 min TMDB 6.0 Drama

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 as Ethel
  • Francis Huster as Lucas Kessling
  • Lambert Wilson as Milan Mliska
  • Patrick Bauchau as Ethel's Father
  • Gisèle Pascal as Gertrude
  • Roger Dumas as André

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