La femme publique

6.5

Genre: Plot
Premiere: 1984
Running time: 1h 53m
Country: France

An inexperienced actress was invited to play a role in a film adapted from Russian writer Dostoevsky's the Demons. The film was directed by a Czech immigrant who settled in Paris. He controlled the life of the actress, and soon the actress could not distinguish between acting and reality. In the end, she played the dead wife of another Czech immigrant who was manipulated by the director and involved in a political assassination plot.