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Murderous Maids

Country: France, Language: French, 94 mins

Original Title

Les Blessures Assassines
  • Director: Jean-Pierre Denis
  • Writer: Jean-Pierre Denis; Paulette Houdyer
  • Producer: Laurent Pétin; Michèle Pétin

CGiii Comment

On February 2nd 1933, in the town of Le Mans, in the West of France, two sisters, Christine Papin, 27, and her younger sister Léa Papin, 21, brutally killed their employer Mrs. Ancelin and her daughter Geneviève. Why did they commit this horrifying murder? As a result of an unhappy childhood? Because they could no longer stand being commanded and exploited by arrogant bourgeois employers? Because their incestuous relationship had been exposed? The film tries to answer these questions and make us understand why and how the two sisters turned from meek sheep to bloody monsters.


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Cast & Characters

Sylvie Testud as Christine Papin;
Julie-Marie Parmentier as Lea Papin;
Isabelle Renauld as Clemence;
Dominique Labourier as Mme Lancelin;
Francois Levantal as Le Gaze;
Jean-Gabriel Nordmann as Mr. Lancelin;
Tessa Szczeciniarz as Christine Papin;
Charlotte Guille as Emilia Papin;
Marie Donnio as Genevieve Lancelin;
Camille Leproust as Lea Papin;
Nadia Barentin as La mere superieure;
Lily Boulogne as Alberta;
Jean Terensier as L'oncle;
Alain Rimoux as Le maire;
Michael Abiteboul as Etienne