Murderous Maids

Les Blessures assassines
Film poster
Directed byJean-Pierre Denis
Screenplay byJean-Pierre Denis
Michèle Pétin
Based onL'affaire Papin
by Paulette Houdyer
Produced byLaurent Pétin
Michèle Pétin
StarringSylvie Testud
Julie-Marie Parmentier
Isabelle Renauld
François Levantal
Dominique Labourier
Jean-Gabriel Nordmann
Marie Donnio
Nadia Barentin
CinematographyJean-Marc Fabre
Edited byMarie-Hélène Dozo
Production
companies
ARP Sélection
StudioCanal
Distributed byARP Sélection
Release date
  • 22 November 2000 (2000-11-22)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
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]

  1. ^ JP. "Les Blessures assassines (2000)- JPBox-Office". www.jpbox-office.com.
  2. ^ JP. "Les Blessures assassines (2000)- JPBox-Office". jpbox-office.com.