Murderous Maids

Based on the true story of two chambermaids of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter.

Cast

Julie-Marie Parmentier

as Léa Papin

Sylvie Testud

as Christine Papin

Isabelle Renauld

as Clémence

François Levantal

as le Gazé

Dominique Labourier

as madame Lancelin

Jean-Gabriel Nordmann

as monsieur Lancelin

Marie Donnio

as Geneviève Lancelin

Lily Boulogne

as Alberta

Reviews

MoHA

Just as the mystery of Jack the Ripper continues to grip the English imagination, the case of the Papin sisters of Le Mans — two maids who, in 1933, brutally slaughtered their employer and her daughter — holds a peculiar sway over the French. Jean Genet used the ghastly events as the basis for his c...

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