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The Public Woman (1984)

  • Released
  • Runtime 1h 53m
  • Director Andrzej Żuławski
  • Genres Drama
  • Rating 6.0/10 (62 votes)

Synopsis

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.

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