The Public Woman
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.
- Year: 1984
- Country: France
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Hachette-Fox Productions
- Keyword: immigrant, paris, france, wife, politics, photography, erotic movie
- Director: Andrzej Żuławski
- Cast: Valérie Kaprisky, Francis Huster, Lambert Wilson, Patrick Bauchau, Gisèle Pascal, Roger Dumas