History Film / DeathAndTheMaiden

%%(ZCE)* DrowningMySorrows: Gerardo when he thinks that Paulina abandoned him.

%%(ZCE)* FauxAffablyEvil: Dr. Miranda liked to rape helpless prisoners because he didn't have to be nice.
%%* HappyMarriageCharade

%%(ZCE)* KubrickStare: Creator/SigourneyWeaver gives us few.
* Hypocrite: Dr. Miranda expresses disgust at the regime that he served and its enablers, particularly those who tortured and murdered political dissidents. [[spoiler: He himself was a torturer, so whether this is just a ruse or his way of projecting his own sense of guilt is left ambiguous.]]

* AffablyEvil: When not in a position of power, Dr. Miranda is the friendliest man you'll ever meet. When serving as a TortureTechnician, he was FauxAffablyEvil, pretending to befriend and comfort the prisoners before assisting with their torture and raping them.

* MoodWhiplash: The Doctor and Gerardo are drinking and talking about women while Paulina is sending the doctor's car off a cliff.

* VillainousBreakdown. When Dr. Miranda finally confesses.

%%* ActionGirl: Paulina
%%* BaldOfEvil: Dr. Miranda
%%(ZCE)* BlatantLies: Of course, the Doctor denies everything [[spoiler: until the very end.]]
%%* ColdBloodedTorture: Poor, poor Paulina. Oh, and it's TruthInTelevision.
%%* DarkAndTroubledPast: One word: Desaparecidos.

%%* ProperlyParanoid: Oh, Paulina.

%%* RapeAndRevenge: Deconstructed.

%%* TortureTechnician: [[spoiler: Dr. Miranda.]]
%%(ZCE)* VillainousBreakdown. When Dr. Miranda finally confesses.
%%* WickedCultured: Dr. Miranda

* BlatantLies: Of course, the Doctor denies everything [[spoiler: until the very end.]]

* DrowningMySorrows: Gerardo when he thinks that Paulina abandoned him.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Dr. Miranda liked to rape helpless prisoners because he didn't have to be nice.

* KubrickStare: Creator/SigourneyWeaver gives us few.

* MinimalistCast: With the exception of the [[{{Bookends}} Bookended]] scenes at the orchestra hall, the entire film consists of just the three main characters.

* VillainousBreakdown. When Dr. Miranda finally confesses.

* DrowningMySorrows: Gerardo when thinks that Paulina abandoned him.

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Of course, the Doctor denies everything [[spoiler: until the very end.]]

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: "Death and the Maiden" is a subject treated in art many times since the renaissance, but the play also specifically references the [[DontFearTheReaper poem by Matthias Claudius]] (original title: ''Der Tod und das Mädchen''), which was scored by Music/FranzSchubert.

* MinimalistCast: With the exception of the [[BookEnds Bookended]] scenes at the orchestra hall, the entire film consists of just the three main characters.

* SoundtrackDissonance: In-universe. Dr. Miranda used to listen his favorite lied ''Death and the Maiden'' while he was raping her.
** In a second moment Gerardo and Miranda are fighting during a rock song.

Has nothing to do with the [[Webcomic/DeathAndTheMaiden webcomic of the same name]], or that one arc of ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' comics concerning Nyssa al-Ghul. Not to be confused with the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeathAndTheMaiden artistic motif of the same name]].

* YourCheatingHeart: Gerardo cheated on Paulina while she was disappeared.

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Has nothing to do with the [[Webcomic/DeathAndTheMaiden webcomic of the same name]], or that one arc of ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'' comics concerning Nyssa al-Ghul. Not to be confused with the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeathAndTheMaiden artistic motif of the same name]].

Directed by Creator/RomanPolanski and starring SigourneyWeaver and Creator/BenKingsley, ''Death and the Maiden'' covers the events of one night, a decade after the revolution in an unnamed South American country. A lawyer brings a neighbor (Kingsley) home in a storm, where the housewife (Weaver) becomes convinced that the neighbor tortured her years ago. The trio deal with the accusations, old memories, and the conflict between revenge and the law over the course of the night.

* KubrickStare: SigourneyWeaver gives us few.

Has nothing to do with the [[Webcomic/DeathAndTheMaiden webcomic of the same name]], or that one arc of ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'' comics concerning Nyssa al-Ghul.

* HeroicSacrifice: Paulina didn't report her boyfriend's name while torured.

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Paulina throws Miranda's car off a cliff to fake his death.
* MoodWhiplash: The Doctor and Gerardo are drinking and talking about women while Paulina his throwing the doctor's car off a cliff.
* MeaningfulEcho: th Doctor always quotes Nietzsche. [[spoiler: And it's when Paulina tells she heard the Doctor quoting often Nietzsche that her husband starts to believe her.]]

* SoundtrackDissonance: In-universe. Dr. Miranda used to listen his favourite lied ''Death and the Maiden'' while he was raping her.

* VillainousBreakdown. When finally Dr. Miranda confesses.

* ActionGirl: Paulina
* BaldOfEvil: Dr. Miranda

* ColdBloodedTorture: Poor, poor Paulina. Oh, and it's TruthInTelevision.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: One word: Desaparecidos.

* HappyMarriageCharade

* ProperlyParanoid: Oh, Paulina.
* RapeAndRevenge: Deconstructed.

* TortureTechnician: [[spoiler: Dr. Miranda.]]

* WickedCultured: Dr. Miranda

While positively reviewed (still at 7.2/10 on IMDB) the movie performed poorly at the box office and received scant attention from award committees.

Directed by Creator/RomanPolanski and starring SigourneyWeaver and BenKingsley, ''Death and the Maiden'' covers the events of one night, a decade after the revolution in an unnamed South American country. A lawyer brings a neighbor (Kingsley) home in a storm, where the housewife (Weaver) becomes convinced that the neighbor tortured her years ago. The trio deal with the accusations, old memories, and the conflict between revenge and the law over the course of the night.

* YourCheatingHeart: Gerardo cheated on Paulina while she was disappeared.

Has nothing to do with the [[Webcomic/DeathAndTheMaiden webcomic of the same name]].

A 1994 film adaption of the 1990 play written by Ariel Dorfman.

* ParanoiaFuel: What if your husbands takes randomly home your former torturer/rapist?

Directed by RomanPolanski and starring SigourneyWeaver and BenKingsley, ''Death and the Maiden'' covers the events of one night, a decade after the revolution in an unnamed South American country. A lawyer brings a neighbor (Kingsley) home in a storm, where the housewife (Weaver) becomes convinced that the neighbor tortured her years ago. The trio deal with the accusations, old memories, and the conflict between revenge and the law over the course of the night.

* AffablyEvil: Dr. Miranda. Oh boy, he was soooo nice at the beggining.

* RapeAsBackstory

* WickedCultured: Dr. Miranda

Directed by RomanPolanski and starring SigourneyWeaver and PeterKingsley, ''Death and the Maiden'' covers the events of one night, a decade after the revolution in an unnamed South American country. A lawyer brings a neighbor (Kingsley) home in a storm, where the housewife (Weaver) becomes convinced that the neighbor tortured her years ago. The trio deal with the accusations, old memories, and the conflict between revenge and the law over the course of the night.

While positively reviewed (still at 7.2/10 on IMDB) the movie performed poorly at the box office and received scant attention from award committees.