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.

• Andrzej ŻuławskiDirector
• Dominique GarnierWriter
• Andrzej ŻuławskiWriter
• Alain WisniakOriginal Music Composer

• Valérie KapriskyEthel
• Francis HusterLucas Kessling
• Lambert WilsonMilan Mliska
• Patrick BauchauEthel's Father
• Gisèle PascalGertrude
• Roger DumasAndré
• Diane DelorElena Mliska
• Jean-Paul FarréPierre
• Olivier Achard1st Assistant Director
• Yveline AilhaudRachel
• Michel AlbertiniMaurice
• Marianne BaslerYoung Anarchist