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 and cast
- Andrzej Żuławski Director
- Valérie Kaprisky as Ethel
- Francis Huster as Lucas Kessling
- Lambert Wilson as Milan Mliska
- Patrick Bauchau as Ethel's Father
- Gisèle Pascal as Gertrude
- Roger Dumas as André, le photographe
- Diane Delor as Elena Mliska
- Jean-Paul Farré as Pierre
- Olivier Achard as Le premier assistant réalisateur
- Yveline Ailhaud Cast
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