Released:
1984-06-16

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.

Director:
Andrzej Żuławski

Runtime:
1h 53min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Valérie Kaprisky
  as
  Ethel
• 
  Francis Huster
  as
  Lucas Kessling
• 
  Lambert Wilson
  as
  Milan Mliska
• 
  Patrick Bauchau
  as
  Ethel's Father
• 
  Gisèle Pascal
  as
  Gertrude