The Public Woman

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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]