Murderous Maids
More than seventy years on, the case of the Papin sisters, the servants who murdered and mutilated their mistress and her daughter in pre-World War II Le Mans, remains an enigma. Jean-Pierre Denis’s film is the definitive screen version: at once a stunning dramatization of the events leading up to the tragedy, and a compelling interrogation of the class issues that are believed to have contributed to the incident.
Cast
- Sylvie Testud
- Christine Papin
- Julie-Marie Parmentier
- Léa Papin
- Isabelle Renauld
- Clémence
- François Levanthal
- The veteran
- Dominique Labourier
- Madame Lancelin
- Jean-Gabriel Nordmann
- Monsieur Lancelin
- Marie Donnio
- Geneviève Lancelin
Credits
- Director
- Jean-Pierre Denis
- Screenplay
- Jean-Pierre Denis
- Screenplay
- Michèle Halberstadt
- Based on the book L'affaire Papin by
- Paulette Houdyer
- Producer
- Michèle Halberstadt
- Producer
- Laurent Pétin
- Production manager
- Daniel Bashieri
- Cinematography
- Jean-Marc Fabre
- Production design
- Bernard Vezat
- Sound
- Jean-Pierre Duret
- Costume design
- Sylvie De Segonzac
- Makeup
- Françoise Chapuis
- Editing
- Marie-Hélène Dozo
- Mix
- Thomas Gauder
