The Public Woman

La femme publique
Directed byAndrzej Żuławski
Written byDominique Garnier
Andrzej Żuławski
StarringValérie Kaprisky
Francis Huster
Lambert Wilson
Patrick Bauchau
CinematographySacha Vierny
Edited byMarie-Sophie Dubus
Music byAlain Wisniak
Distributed byHachette-Fox
Release date
  • 16 May 1984 (1984-05-16)
Running time
113 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

The Public Woman (French: La femme publique) is a 1984 French erotic drama film, 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. The film being recorded inside the film is based on inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1872 novel Demons.