The Public Woman

Year: 1984

Runtime: 113 mins

Language: French

Director: Andrzej Żuławski

Drama

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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