Les Blessures assassines | |
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Directed by | Jean-Pierre Denis |
Screenplay by | Jean-Pierre Denis Michèle Pétin |
Based on | L'affaire Papin by Paulette Houdyer |
Produced by | Laurent Pétin Michèle Pétin |
Starring | Sylvie Testud Julie-Marie Parmentier Isabelle Renauld François Levantal Dominique Labourier Jean-Gabriel Nordmann Marie Donnio Nadia Barentin |
Cinematography | Jean-Marc Fabre |
Edited by | Marie-Hélène Dozo |
Production companies | ARP Sélection StudioCanal |
Distributed by | ARP Sélection |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Budget | $4.1 million |
Box office | $2.9 million[1] |
Murderous Maids (French: Les blessures assassines) is a French film directed by Jean-Pierre Denis, released in 2000, which tells the true story of two French maids, Christine and Lea Papin. The screenplay by Jean-Pierre Denis with Michèle Pétin, was based on the book L'affaire Papin by Paulette Houdyer. It told the story of the double murder committed by the maids, which made sensational headlines in France in 1933. The film had 360,846 admissions in France.[2]