EMMANUELLE star SYLVIA KRISTEL is to be the subject of a new documentary which will chronicle her drug addiction and her cancer battle.

The Dutch actress shot to fame as the lead in the soft-porn series of films and then disappeared almost as quickly.

Following the release of her biography, NAKED, last month (SEP06), Dutch documentarian MICHIEL VAN ERP is planning to tell her story in a new film.

He says, "She is one of the few Dutch actresses who made it abroad."