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Death and the Maiden (film)
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| Directed by | Roman Polanski |
| Produced by | Josh Kramer Thom Mount |
| Written by | Ariel Dorfman Rafael Yglesias |
| Starring | Sigourney Weaver Ben Kingsley Stuart Wilson |
| Cinematography | Tonino Delli Colli |
| Distributed by | Fine Line Features |
| Release date(s) | 1994 |
| Running time | 103 min. |
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Death and the Maiden is a 1994 film directed by Roman Polanski, based on the play by Ariel Dorfman, a Chilean exile who escaped the regime of Augusto Pinochet. It starred Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley and Stuart Wilson.
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Paulina Escobar (Weaver) is a housewife married to a prominent lawyer in an unnamed South American country. One day a storm forces her husband to ride home with a kind stranger. That chance encounter brings up demons from her past, as she is convinced that the stranger, Dr. Miranda (Kingsley), was part of the old fascist regime and that he tortured and raped her while she was blindfolded. Paulina takes him captive to determine the 'truth'.
A central motif is Schubert's string quartet in d-minor, which is known as the Death and the Maiden Quartet. The quartet is based on the lied Death and the Maiden, which was also composed by Schubert. A recording of this quartet was played during Paulina's ordeal. The play and hence also the film derive its name from the music.
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