Plot

A novice actress's reality blurs when a Czech director in Paris casts her in a Dostoyevsky adaptation, then uses her to pose as a dead woman to manipulate another Czech immigrant into assassination.

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 committing a political assassination.—Yuri German <blsidt1@imf.org>