Directed by:
Andrzej ZulawskiCinematography:
Sacha ViernyComposer:
Alain WisniakCast:
Valérie Kaprisky, Francis Huster, Lambert Wilson, Patrick Bauchau, Giselle Pascal, Roger Dumas, Michel Albertini, Lucas Belvaux, Marianne Basler (more)Plots(1)
A young actress, Ethel, coming from nowhere, is trying to create a personality through her body and her indestructible resolve if necessary, through Elena, her lover’s wife who has disappeared. Two men: Lucas Kesling, ambitious cinema director with diabolical powers, and Milan, fallen angel on an earth cracking beneath his feet, both fighting to possess Ethel. The restless filming of a viscontian movie adapted from Dostoyevsky's "The Possessed" in an opulent and smothering set. A political conspiracy conspiring to do away with the prelate from Eastern Europe, which Milan is inadvertently caught up in. An oppressing and eerie Paris transformed into an expressionist universe which these hunted characters are trying to escape from. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
César Awards
- 1985 - Valérie Kaprisky (Best Actress)
- 1985 - Lambert Wilson (Best Supporting Actor)
- 1985 - Andrzej Zulawski, Dominique Garnier (Best Adaptation)
Montreal World Film Festival
- 1984 - Andrzej Zulawski (Special Jury Prize)
- 1984 - Andrzej Zulawski (Public Award for the Most Popular Film of the Festival)