The Staircase 2004
Created by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
- Documentary, Crime
- 49 min episodes
- 1 season
- 13 episodes
- Ended
- TV-MA
Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, presents a gripping courtroom thriller, offering a rare and revealing inside look at a high-profile murder trial. In 2001, author Michael Peterson was arraigned for the murder of his wife Kathleen, whose body was discovered lying in a pool of blood on the stairway of their home. Granted unusual access to Peterson's lawyers, home and immediate family, de Lestrade's cameras capture the defense team as it considers its strategic options. The series is an engrossing look at contemporary American justice that features more twists than a legal bestseller.
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Grave, contemporary, earnest and classical in form.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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Cast
- Michael PetersonSelf
- Ron GueretteSelf
- Tom MaherSelf
- David RudolfSelf
- Bill PetersonSelf
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- Jean-Xavier de LestradeCreator
- Jean-Xavier de LestradeDirector
- Jean-Xavier de LestradeWriter
- Jean-Xavier de LestradeProducer
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Seasons
- Season 113 eps · 2004
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