Blood Relatives
Blood Relatives (original French title: Les liens de sang) is a 1978 Canadian-French mystery film directed by Claude Chabrol from a screenplay that he and Sydney Banks adapted from the 1975 novel of the same name by Ed McBain. Set in Montreal, Canada, it involves the brutal murder of a teenage girl and the subsequent investigation led by Donald Sutherland as Steve Carella, the lead character of McBain's 87th Precinct series. Blood Relatives was filmed under a policy that allowed full tax deferment to foreign produced films if they reflected a specific portrait of Canada. For this reason, the novel's setting of a thinly-veiled New York City is changed to Montreal. Filmmaker Akira Kurosawa (whose 1963 film High and Low was adapted from an Ed McBain novel) called Chabrol a "pretty skillful director" and this film "the best of all Ed McBain adaptations".
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| author | Claude Chabrol |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Canada |
| director | Claude Chabrol |
| editor | Yves Langlois |
| genre | drama mystery |
| musicBy | Pierre Jansen |
| producer | Denis Héroux Eugène Lépicier |
| productionCompany | Cinevideo-Filmel |
| publisher | Astral Video |
| recordedAt | Montreal |