The 73-year-old Huppert, one of France's greatest contemporary actors, portrays Bérénice in an adaptation of Jean Racine's classic 1670 tragedy of the same name.
The director is the Italian playwright Romeo Castellucci.
The fact that both world stars are coming to Gothenburg is "an extra big feather in our cap," says festival director Martin Hansson in a press release.
Isabelle Huppert had her breakthrough in the 1970s and has played award-winning roles in films such as Michael Haneke's "The Piano Teacher," "Violette" and "The Ceremony." For the first two, she won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival.
