Landscape Suicide

Story

Synopsis

Benning continues his examination of Americana in this film through the stories of two murderers. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and multiple murderer who taxidermied his victims in the 1950s. Bernadette Protti was a California teenager who stabbed a friend to death over an insult in 1984.

Director

James Benning

Writers

James Benning

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

17 September 1987

Ensemble

Cast

• Rhonda Bell

  Bernadette Protti

• Elion Sucher

  Ed Gein

• Eve E. Ellis

  Tennis Player

• Lisbeth Jetton

  Girl on Phone

• Pegge Winslow

  Woman Dancing

• John Benning

  Hunter

• Rusty Johnson

  Man at Farm

• Dorothy Zeidman

  Narrator (voice)

• Chris Cordes

  FBI Interrogator (voice)

• Ira Shapiro

  Attorney (voice)

• 

  Ron Vawter

  Prosecutor (voice)