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2017
Unrated
Sundance Selects
2 h 10 m

2017
Unrated
Sundance Selects
2 h 10 m

Summary March 30, 1985: Derek and Nancy Haysom are discovered brutally murdered at their home in Lynchburg, Virginia. The subsequent arrest and conviction of the couple’s daughter Elizabeth, a wealthy scholarship student at the University of Virginia, and her boyfriend Jens Soering, the brilliant son of a German diplomat, set off a media frenzy,...

Directed By: Marcus Vetter, Karin Steinberger

Written By: Karin Steinberger, Marcus Vetter

2017
Unrated
Sundance Selects
2 h 10 m

2017
Unrated
Sundance Selects
2 h 10 m

Killing for Love

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Summary March 30, 1985: Derek and Nancy Haysom are discovered brutally murdered at their home in Lynchburg, Virginia. The subsequent arrest and conviction of the couple’s daughter Elizabeth, a wealthy scholarship student at the University of Virginia, and her boyfriend Jens Soering, the brilliant son of a German diplomat, set off a media frenzy,...

Directed By: Marcus Vetter, Karin Steinberger

Written By: Karin Steinberger, Marcus Vetter

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Top Cast

Imogen Poots

Elizabeth Haysom

Daniel Brühl

Jens Söring

Jens Söring

Self

Chuck Reid

Self - Former Investigator Bedford County Sheriff's Department

Ricky Gardner

Self - Lead investigator Bedford County Sheriff's Department

Suzanne Peniche

Self

John Peniche

Self

Carlos Santos

Self - Journalist

Rich Zorn

Self - Former Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General

Gail Marshall

Self - Soering attorney, former Deputy Attorney General of Virginia

Tom Elliott

Self - Catholic Deacon and Chaplain

Dave Watson

Self - Private Investigator

Gail Ball

Self - Jens Söring's Lawyer

Steven Rosenfield

Self - Jens Soering's lead attorney

William Sweeney

Self - Judge

Nada Sweeney

Self

Tony Buchanan

Self

Ed Sulzbach

Self - Former FBI Psychological Profiler

Elizabeth Haysom

Self

Jim Updike

Self

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Los Angeles Times

Dec 14, 2017

Though overlong, and pitched a little too heavily toward cable-TV sensationalism...Killing for Love is still a gripping murder mystery about the fated coupling of a pair of calculating romantics too smart for their own good, and the limits of the American justice system

By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW

The Hollywood Reporter

Dec 14, 2017

The film is frustratingly disjointed and hard to follow at times as it inundates viewers with a torrent of information. Nonetheless, it proves compulsively fascinating.

By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Dec 14, 2017

Marcus Vetter and Karin Steinberger’s sprawling documentary probably dives into the weeds too quickly and could have used a tighter edit. Still, drawing on a wealth of courtroom video, the film lays out a persuasive argument for reasonable doubt.

By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Filmperspektive GmbH, Südwestrundfunk (SWR), ARTE, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), Danmarks Radio (DR), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Sveriges Television (SVT), Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep (VPRO)

Release Date Dec 15, 2017

Duration 2 h 10 m

Rating Unrated

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Website https://www.facebook.com/KillingForLoveDoc

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Awards

Accolade Competition

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

Nuremberg Film Festival "Turkey-Germany"

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

Vukovar Film Festival

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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