The Owl House (2004)
| Episode of the series Agatha Christie's Poirot | |||
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| title | The owl house | ||
| Original title | The hollow | ||
| Country of production | United Kingdom | ||
| original language | English | ||
| length | 95 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Season 9, episode 4 53rd episode overall ( list ) |
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| First broadcast | April 26, 2004 on ITV | ||
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December 26, 2005 on NDR | ||
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| Director | Simon Langton | ||
| script | Nick Dear | ||
| production | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| music | Christopher Gunning | ||
| camera | James Aspinall | ||
| cut | Andrew McClelland | ||
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The Owl House (original title: The Hollow ) is a long episode from the ninth season of the British television series Agatha Christie's Poirot from 2004 by Simon Langton . It is the film adaptation of the 1946 novel by Agatha Christie .
action
Hercule Poirot spends his weekend in the country. A famous film actress named Veronica Cray has rented a room in the immediate vicinity. Nearby is the Angkatell estate, which at this time also accommodates a few weekend guests. Lady Angkatell invites Poirot to dinner because she fears that there could be unpleasant scenes between the guests and expects the presence of a famous private detective to lead to more civilized behavior. So the dinner takes place and shortly after Poirot says goodbye, Veronica Cray shows up to ask for matches. In truth, she wants the doctor John Christow back, who broke off his engagement to her twelve years ago and is also a guest. However, he is now married. His wife Gerda and his lover Henrietta Savernake are present. Nevertheless, John gets involved with Veronica and spends half the night with her. The next day he was shot by the pool . Poirot joins them just at the moment when the murdered man's wife is stunned with a revolver in hand with the dead man. Henrietta and the host Lady Angkatell are also in the immediate vicinity. The picture seems strange to Poirot. To him, the crime seems too simple or, on the other hand, extremely complicated. While everyone present is behaving more and more puzzling and thus making them suspicious, John's wife Gerda is exonerated from the murder charge, because the revolver in her hand is not the weapon of the murder . A little game of confusion unfolds that Poirot can only unravel with the use of all his detective instinct. Ultimately, it turns out that the obvious solution is the right one.
literature
- Agatha Christie : The Owl House (Original title: The Hollow ). German by Pieke Biermann. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, 202 pages, ISBN 3-596-16541-5 .
Web links
- The Owl's Nest in the Internet Movie Database (English)
supporting documents
- ↑ Release certificate for The Owl House . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2008 (PDF; test number: 115 013 DVD).