Set in an unnamed South American country, DEATH AND THE MAIDEN layers elements of a melodramatic thriller over a chamber drama with serious moral and political aspirations.
Paulina Escobar (Sigourney Weaver) is a former torture victim now sharing a respectable, upper-middle class lifestyle with her husband, Gerardo (Stuart Wilson). A prominent lawyer, Gerardo has been invited to head a commission investigating human rights violations under the country's former
military regime. When Dr. Roberto Miranda (Ben Kingsley) accompanies Gerardo home after having assisted him with a blown tire, Paulina is immediately certain that this is the man who brutalized her years...
Released:
1994
Rated:
R
Length:
103 mins