The Unfinished Portrait (2003)

Episode of the series Agatha Christie's Poirot
title	The unfinished portrait
Original title	Five Little Pigs
Country of production	United Kingdom
original language	English
length	93 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
classification	Season 9, episode 1 ; 50th episode overall ( list )
First broadcast	December 14, 2003 on ITV
German-language ; first broadcast	December 24, 2005 on NDR
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Director	Paul Unwin
script	Kevin Elyot
production	Margaret Mitchell
music	Christopher Gunning
camera	Martin Fuhrer
cut	John Costelloe
occupation
	David Suchet : Hercule Poirot ; Rachael Stirling : Caroline Crale; Aidan Gillen : Amya's Crale; Toby Stephens : Philip Blake; Marc Warren : Meredith Blake; Aimee Mullins : Lucy Crale; Julie Cox : Elsa Greer; Gemma Jones : Miss Williams; Sophie Winkleman : Angela Warren; Talulah Riley : Angela Warren (young);
chronology
← Predecessor ; Murder in Mesopotamia	Successor → ; morphine

The unfinished portrait (original title: Five Little Pigs ) is a long episode from the ninth season of the British television series Agatha Christie's Poirot from 2003 by Paul Unwin . It is the film adaptation of the 1942 novel by Agatha Christie .

action

Lucy Crale hires Hercule Poirot to solve a murder fourteen years ago. At that time, her mother was found guilty of her husband, a painter who poisoned to have, and then to death by hanging convicted . The motive is jealousy of her husband's lover. Poirot is quickly convinced of the alleged murderess' innocence and settles on five suspects, whom he visits and questions independently of one another. He receives five different versions of the events of the day on which the poisoning occurred in flashbacks. Finally, all the protagonists come together at the crime scene, a country estate, and Poirot manages to convict the real culprit.

background

Philip Blake's unfulfilled wish for love relates to Amyas Crale in the film and not to Caroline as in the book.

literature

Agatha Christie : The unfinished portrait (Original title: Five Little Pigs ). German by Pieke Biermann. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, 220 pages, ISBN 3-596-17584-4 .

Web links

Five Little Pigs in the Internet Movie Database (English)

supporting documents

↑ Release certificate for the unfinished portrait . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2008 (PDF; test number: 115 025 DVD).

[FSK-1] Release certificate for the unfinished portrait . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2008 (PDF; test number: 115 025 DVD).