Sacrificed in cold blood
| Movie | |
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| German title | Sacrificed in cold blood |
| Original title | Precious Victims |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Levin |
| script | Deborah Dalton |
| production | Timothy Marx |
| music | Mark Snow |
| camera | Paul Maibaum |
| cut | Skip Schoolnik |
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Sacrificed in Cold Blood (Original title: Precious Victims ) is an American drama from 1993 . Directed by Peter Levin , the screenplay was written by Deborah Dalton .
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The plot is based on true events that took place in Illinois in the late 1980s . The couple Paula and Robert Sims report the kidnapping of their one-year-old daughter. The child is found murdered. Paula Sims' description seems implausible; she is charged, but the court acquits her.
Three years later, a second daughter of the couple, who was born in the meantime, is murdered. A witness testifies in court that Robert Sims was infatuated with the third child, a son, but indifferent to the daughter. Another witness says that Paula Sims and the daughter slept on a different floor of the house than father and son, but Paula was allowed to go back to the bedroom after the daughter's death. Paula Sims is convicted.
Reviews
Film-Dienst wrote that the shown trial revealed "the tragic story of the accused" .
Cinema magazine described the film as a "sensitive chronicle of a family tragedy" . In court, "the whole tragedy" of the "botched life" of the protagonist is revealed .
The magazine TV direkt 15/2008 wrote that the script looked "wooden and bumpy" .
Web links
- Cold blood sacrificed in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sacrificed in cold blood in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on July 12, 2008
- ↑ a b TV direkt 15/2008, page 66
- ^ Cinema , accessed July 12, 2008