
The Public Woman
A slow, unsettling plunge into obsession and blurred reality, demanding and dark, with an erotic charge and a lingering sense of dread.
- Directed by
- Andrzej Żuławski
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Valérie Kaprisky, Francis Huster, Lambert Wilson
- Overview
- 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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- Directed by
- Andrzej Żuławski
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Valérie Kaprisky, Francis Huster, Lambert Wilson






















