The Public Woman
La Femme publique
Watch The Public Woman at FMovies. 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.
- Genre: Drama
- Country: France
- Director: Andrzej Żuławski
- Cast: Valérie Kaprisky, Francis Huster, Lambert Wilson, Patrick Bauchau, Gisèle Pascal, Roger Dumas, Diane Delor, Jean-Paul Farré, Olivier Achard, Yveline Ailhaud, Michel Albertini, Marianne Basler, Nathalie Bécue, Lucas Belvaux, René Bériard,
