The Public Woman
1984-06-16
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1h 53m
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Drama
User Score
52 votes
Overview
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.
Andrzej Żuławski
Director
Andrzej Żuławski
Writer
