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The Public Woman

The Public Woman

6.0 Rating
113 min 1984

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.

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Status

Released

Budget

Unknown

Revenue

Unknown

Original Language

FR

Production Companies

Hachette-Fox Productions

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