Murderous Maids
It wasn't just a crime. It was a crime of passion.
Sinopse
Based on the true story of two chambermaids of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter.
- 6.1
- 2000
- Released
- 1h 34m
Julie-Marie Parmentier
Léa Papin
Sylvie Testud
Christine Papin
Isabelle Renauld
Clémence
François Levantal
le Gazé
Dominique Labourier
madame Lancelin
Jean-Gabriel Nordmann
monsieur Lancelin
Marie Donnio
Geneviève Lancelin
Lily Boulogne
Alberta
Status
Released
Original Language
fr
Keywords
- #sibling relationship
- #france
- #murder
Reviews
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@merenabeabout 10 years ago
Just as the mystery of Jack the Ripper continues to grip the English imagination, the case of the Papin sisters of Le Mans — two maids who, in 1933, brutally slaughtered their employer and her daughter — holds a peculiar sway over the French. Jean Genet used the ghastly events as the basis for his celebrated one-act play "The Maids," while the cream of France's intelligentsia, from Jean-Paul Sartr