The Public Woman

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1984 French film

La femme publique

Directed by| Andrzej Żuławski
Written by| Dominique Garnier
Andrzej Żuławski
Starring| Valérie Kaprisky
Francis Huster
Lambert Wilson
Patrick Bauchau
Cinematography| Sacha Vierny
Edited by| Marie-Sophie Dubus
Music by| Alain Wisniak
Distributed by| Hachette-Fox

Release date

* 16 May 1984 (1984-05-16)

Running time

| 113 minutes
Country| France
Language| French

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.[1]

## Awards[edit]

### César Awards, France, 1985[edit]

Nominated

* Best Actress - Valérie Kaprisky
* Best Supporting Actor - Lambert Wilson
* Best Writing - Adaptation - Andrzej Żuławski and Dominique Garnier

### Montréal World Film Festival 1984[edit]

* Won Most Popular Film - Andrzej Żuławski
* Won Special Prize of the Jury - Andrzej Żuławski

## DVD releases[edit]

The film had its English-speaking debut on DVD in late 2008, when new label Mondo Vision released the film as its debut title. The disc features a commentary from Andrzej Żuławski and a video interview, where he discusses Polish cinema and the film's production. The film is also available on DVD from LCJ Editions in France, IVC in Japan, and Minerva Pictures in Italy, but lack these extras.

## References[edit]

1. ^ "La Femme publique (1984) - JPBox-Office".

## External links[edit]

* La femme publique at IMDb
* La femme publique at AllMovie
* Image comparison comparing the quality of different DVD releases
* Bagatellen.com review
* DVDTalk Review
* DVD Times Review

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Films directed by Andrzej Żuławski

* The Third Part of the Night (1971)
* The Devil (1972)
* That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)
* Possession (1981)
* The Public Woman (1984)
* L'Amour braque (1985)
* On the Silver Globe (1988)
* My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days (1989)
* Boris Godunov (1989)
* Szamanka (1996)
* Fidelity (2000)
* Cosmos (2015)

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Fyodor Dostoevsky's Demons (1872)

Films|

* La Chinoise (1967)
* The Public Woman (1984)
* The Possessed (1988)

Plays|

* The Possessed (1959)

Authority control databases

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* VIAF

National|

* France
* BnF data

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* IdRef

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