USA 1995
World Premiere
Director/Producer: Nich Broomfield
Cinematographer: Paul Kloss
Editor: S. J. Bloom
Music: David Bergeaud
Print Source: In Pictures
XX minutes
A brutally honest investigaton of this riddle comprises the new film by
documentarian Nick Broomfield - Tracking Down Maggie Thatcher(1994);
Soldier Girls 1983; Monster in a Box (1991). In a Hard Copy
version of Rashomon, we get conflicting testimony from Ivan Nagy, the
lover/Svengali who introduced Heidi into "the life"; Alex, the infamous L.A.
madame who taught the early jeans-clad Heidi how to dress; roommate Victoria
Sellers (Peter's daughter) who watched her sweet innocent friend go berserk
on drugs; Heidi's 'girls' who are certain that terrible Ivan delivered
Heidi to the L.A. police. Finally the twenty-something ingenue herself, Heidi
Lynn Fleiss, disarming and vulnerable on the eve of what many called an
unjustly harsh sentencing tells her side of the story.
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