La femme publique

The film "La femme publique" (1984) is a French drama about an inexperienced young actress, Ethel (Valérie Kaprisky), who is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, Milan Mliska (Lambert Wilson), takes over her life, blurring the lines between acting and reality, and manipulates her into posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, leading to a political assassination. As Ethel becomes increasingly entangled in the film, her relationship with her father (Patrick Bauchau) and her own sense of identity begin to unravel.