Death and the Maiden
Synopsis
Pauline Escobar is one of the countless victims of the military dictatorship that ruled her country for several decades before giving way to a timid and fragile democracy. Imprisoned, raped and tortured when she was a student militant, she still bears the physical and mental scars of her ordeal and now lives in isolation with her husband Gerardo, a brilliant liberal courted by the new regime. Sickened at the idea that her torturers may elude justice, Pauline bitterly reproaches Gerardo for having agreed to chair a puppet commission of inquiry into the junta's crimes. One stormy evening when his car breaks down, Gerardo is given a lift home by Dr Roberto Miranda. When the good Samaritan returns in the middle of the night for a futile reason, Pauline suddenly thinks that she recognizes her torturer's voice...
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Production and distribution (3)
- Co-productions : Flach Film, Les Films de l'Astre, TF1 Films Production, Fine Line Features
- Foreign production company : Capitol Films
- French distribution : Pyramide Distribution
Full credits (23)
- Screenwriters : Rafael Yglesias, Ariel Dorfman
- Director of Photography : Tonino Delli Colli
- Music Composer : Wojciech Kilar
- Assistant directors : Patrick Boshart, Michel Cheyko
- Editor : Hervé De Luze
- Sound Recordist : Daniel Brisseau
- Costume designer : Milena Canonero
- Author of original work : Ariel Dorfman
- Producer : Thom Mount
- Co-producers : Sergio Gobbi, Jean-François Lepetit, Ariel Dorfman
- Sound Assistant : Jean-Marie Blondel
- Assistant Operator : Pierre Barougier
- Camera Operator : Jean Harnois
- Production Manager : Patrick Gordon
- Press Attachés (film) : Jean-Pierre Vincent, Sandrine Lamantowicz
- Sound Editor : Laurent Quaglio
- Assistant editors : Rose-Marie Lausson, Raphaël Péaud
- Continuity supervisor : Sylvette Baudrot
- Production Designer : Pierre Guffroy
- Stunt performer : Jean-Louis Airola
- Artistic Director : Claude Moesching
- Sound mixers : Jean-François Auger, Anne Le Campion
- Still Photographers : François Duhamel, Luc Roux
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Psychological drama
- Production language : English
- Coproducer countries : Great Britain, United States, France
- Original French-language productions : No
- Nationality : Minority French (Great Britain, United States, France)
- Production year : 1994
- French release : 29/03/1995
- Runtime : 1 h 45 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 85.154
- Visa issue date : 21/04/1995
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby
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"I wrote this play in reference to a specific country, Chile, while making sure that it would function in other contexts. I removed all ethnic elements from it in order to make it accessible to as wide an audience as posible. Among the numerous directors who expressed interest in the project, I immediately preferred Roman Polanski. He knows what violence is, he has crossed its path in his life. He has lived exil, like me. He was the ideal man for the situation. I was fascinated by his work. The actors, the lighting, the set, the props-everything forms a whole in his cinema. He has a particular affinity with the thriller and he's a perfectionist."
(Ariel Dorfman - Author / co-screenwriter / co-producer)
