CinemaOSMovie · 2007 · 0h 52m

The Truth about Black Dahlia

73%(3)DocumentaryCrime

The unexplained deaths of Elizabeth Short, a.k.a "The Black Dahlia", in 1947 and of Geneva Hilliker Ellroy in 1958, had a profound impact on the psyche of James Ellroy, today's greatest crime writer. Steve Hodel, a retired LAPD cop, reveals everything about Georges Hodel, his own father as well as the perpetratror of those two unsolved murders, the most notorious ones in 20th century America. Steve Hodel retraces this amazing investigation in which genius and horror, Hollywood and the Marquis de Sade, incest and surgery, are blended into the grimmest of scenarios.

Directed byThibaut Chatel, Laurence Chanut, dalila bellil

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June 13, 2007
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The truth about the Black Dahlia

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Starring
Elizabeth Short

Elizabeth Short

Self (archive footage)

George Hodel

Self (archive footage)

Steve Hodel

self

Tamar Hodel

self

Man Ray

Man Ray

archive footage

Paul Teetor

self

Stephen Kay

self

jeanne french

archive footage

Bill Stoner

self

Geneva Hilliker Ellroy

archive footage

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Directed by
Thibaut Chatel
Laurence Chanut
Written by
Claire Benoit
Guillaume Galliot

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