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.

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  Valérie Kaprisky

  Ethel
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  Francis Huster

  Lucas Kessling
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  Lambert Wilson

  Milan Mliska
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  Patrick Bauchau

  Ethel's Father
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  Gisèle Pascal

  Gertrude
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  Roger Dumas

  André
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  Jean-Paul Farré

  Pierre
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  Olivier Achard

  1st Assistant Director
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  Yveline Ailhaud

  Rachel
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  Michel Albertini

  Maurice