Evil Under the Sun (2001)

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Episode of the series Agatha Christie's Poirot
title Evil under the sun
Original title Evil under the Sun
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Season 8, Episode 1
48th episode overall ( list )
First broadcast April 20, 2001 on ITV
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Director Brian Farnham
script Anthony Horowitz
production Brian Eastman ,
Simon Crawford Collin ,
Delia Fine
music Christopher Gunning
camera Fred Tammes
cut Chris Wimble
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Lord Edgware Dies

Successor  →
Murder in Mesopotamia

Evil Under the Sun (AKA: Evil under the Sun ) is an English long episode of the eighth season of the television series Agatha Christie's Poirot in 2001 by Brian Farnham . This is the second film adaptation of the novel Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie from 1941. The first film adaptation presented Sir Peter Ustinov in the lead role of Hercule Poirot .

action

Hercule Poirot is vacationing with his friend Hastings on the tidal island of Burgh Island in Devon . There he is involved in a murder, and it is only late that he realizes that he is the victim of a perfect staging.

Actress Arlena Marshall is found strangled on the beach. Among the crowd of illustrious hotel guests, everyone would have had a motive to commit the murder of the unpopular and pointed-tongued Arlena. Poirot investigates every suspicion with pedantic doggedness and solves the case with his own finesse.

background

The film was shot on Burgh Island , Devon , where Agatha Christie wrote the novel.
The Bible quote (Lutherbibel 1912): "There is an evil thing among everything that happens under the sun, that one thing is like another; hence the heart of men becomes full of evil, and folly is in their heart while they are alive ; after that they must die ", was used by the former pastor.
The German first edition was published in 1945 under the title Rätsel um Arlena in the translation by Ursula von Wiese by Scherz Verlag.

literature

  • Agatha Christie: Evil under the sun (Original title: Evil under the Sun ). German by Ursula Gail. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-17143-1 .

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ release document for Evil Under the Sun . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2011 (PDF; test number: 128 142 V).