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The Public Woman (1984) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1984 · 113 mins · French
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- Directed by
- Andrzej Żuławski
- Starring
- Lambert Wilson, Valérie Kaprisky, Lucas Belvaux, Patrick Bauchau, Marianne Basler, Roger Dumas
An inexperienced actress is cast in a film adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s The Possessed. The Czech immigrant director in Paris dominates her, blurring performance and reality. She soon impersonates the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, whom the filmmaker pushes into a political assassination.
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