An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker into commiting a political assassination.
Valérie Kaprisky
as Ethel
Francis Huster
as Lucas Kessling
Lambert Wilson
as Milan Mliska
Patrick Bauchau
as Ethel's Father
Gisèle Pascal
as Gertrude
Roger Dumas
as André
Diane Delor
as Elena Mliska
Jean-Paul Farré
as Pierre
Olivier Achard
as 1st Assistant Director
Yveline Ailhaud
as Rachel
Michel Albertini
as Maurice
Marianne Basler
as Young Anarchist
