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The Public Woman is a french film of genre Drama directed by Andrzej Żuławski released in USA on 7 july 1984 with Valérie Kaprisky

The Public Woman (1984)

The Public Woman
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Released in USA 7 july 1984
Length 1h53
Directed by
OriginFrance
Genres Drama,    Erotic
Rating63% 3.1961353.1961353.1961353.1961353.196135

The Public Woman (French: La femme publique) is a 1984 French drama film inspired by Dostoevsky's novel Demons and directed by Andrzej Żuławski, starring Valérie Kaprisky, Lambert Wilson and Francis Huster as the lead actors. The film had a total of 1,302,425 admissions in France where it was the 28th highest grossing film of the year.



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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 committing a political assassination.

Actors

Valérie Kaprisky

(Ethel)Francis Huster

(Lucas Kessling)Lambert Wilson

(Milan Mliska)Patrick Bauchau

(Ethel's Father)Roger Dumas

(André)
And :
Gisèle Pascal
Jean-Paul Farré
Olivier Achard
Michel Albertini
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