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The Public Woman(Movie, 1984)

Original title: "La Femme publique" (French/FR)
1h 53min | Genre: Drama
The Public WomanRating: 3.2/5 (with 2121 votes)
The Public Woman (French: La femme publique) is a 1984 French erotic drama film inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1872 novel Demons and directed by Andrzej Żuławski, starring Valérie Kaprisky, Lambert Wilson and Francis Huster as the lead actors. The film had a total of 1,302,425 admissions in France where it was the 28th highest-grossing film of the year. ()
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Awards & Nominations for The Public Woman

César Award for Best Actress César Award for Best Adaptation

About 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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Trailer for The Public Woman + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Trailer 1(Trailer, 2:15)

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Additional Information

Production country: France
Original language: French (FR)
Spoken languages: German (DE), French (FR)
Translated into 10 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Polish (PL), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 07/07/1984 (World premiere: 06/16/1984)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Публична жена"

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:83076, Added: 03/17/2018, Last updated: 04/13/2024