A jury of her peers
| Movie | |
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| Original title | A jury of her peers |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 20 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sally Heckel |
| script | Sally Heckel |
| production | Sally Heckel |
| camera | Janet Meyers |
| cut | Sally Heckel |
| occupation | |
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A Jury of Her Peers is an American short film by Sally Heckel from 1980.
action
A farm around 1900: Mr. Hale, accompanied by his son Harry, wants to sell the farmer John Burke a telephone, but he only meets his wife Minnie in the house. She sits quietly in her chair and tells him that John Burke is dead. In fact, his body is lying in bed, strangled with a rope. Minnie was sleeping next to him when the deed happened.
A few days later, Sheriff Mr. Peters, his wife, Minnie's neighbor Mrs. Hale and Mr. Hale and the District Attorney Mr. Cook arrive at Burke's farm to inspect the crime scene. Minnie Burke is under arrest on charges of murdering her husband. Mrs. Hale knew Minnie and saw her irregularly. Mrs. Peters first saw her when she was arrested. Both want to take Minnie things to jail. While the men inspect the crime scene, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters collect Minnie's things. You should report to the men if they find anything important for the case. In addition to clothing, a veil and a scarf, the women decide to bring Minnie her sewing supplies, as she was quilting . In conversation, Mrs. Hale makes it clear that John Burke was a righteous, but also a very tough man, with whom Minnie did not have it easy.
Mrs. Peters finds an empty birdcage in the kitchen, the door of which has been violently destroyed. Both women believe that Minnie kept a canary that the cat might have gotten. Mrs. Hale finds a box in Minnie's handicraft supplies that contains a dead canary. His neck was twisted to silence him, just as John Burke had silenced the once cheerful Minnie more and more. Mrs. Hale suspects that John Burke killed the bird, which in turn caused Minnie to murder her husband. Both women tell the men who lack the motive to act, nothing of the dead bird that Mrs. Hale is taking. The group eventually leaves the farm.
production
A Jury of Her Peers was filmed in Petersburgh, New York, from April to May 1977. Louise Martinez created the costumes and Jeanne McDonnell designed the film .
The film is based on the short story of the same name by Susan Glaspell from 1917; Glaspell wrote this based on her own one-act play Trifles , which had been released the previous year. In contrast to the literary model, characters were renamed in the film, so the Wright family became the Burke family and lawyer Henderson became lawyer Cook.
A Jury of Her Peers has been shown at numerous film festivals, including the London Film Festival (1980), the Mannheim International Film Week (1980) and the Telluride Film Festival (1981).
Awards
A Jury of Her Peers was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Short Film in 1981.
Web links
- A Jury of Her Peers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Making the film on unspeakablethefilm.com
- ↑ Overview of festivals and awards on wmm.com