The cat in the dovecote (2008)

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Episode of the series Agatha Christie's Poirot
title The cat in the dovecote
Original title Cat Among the Pigeons
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Season 11, episode 2
59th episode overall ( list )
First broadcast September 21, 2008 on ITV
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Director James Kent
script Mark Gatiss
production Karen Thrussell
music Stephen McKeon
camera Cinders Forshaw
cut Michael Harrowes
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chronology

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Mrs. McGinty is dead

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The Forgetful Murderess

The cat in the dovecote (original title: Cat Among the Pigeons ) is a long episode from the eleventh season of the British television series Agatha Christie's Poirot from 2008 by James Kent . It is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Agatha Christie from 1959.

action

The famous English boarding school for girls Meadowbank is the setting for this Poirot story. Noble girls, daughters from rich families and a foreign princess from the Middle East are prepared for their future here. Poirot is friends with the headmistress Miss Bulstrode and invited to give a speech at the opening ceremony for the new school year. After the ceremony that followed, Miss Bulstrode asked Poirot to use his ability to observe people to select a successor to the post of headmistress from among the teaching staff. Poirot readily agrees, without realizing that a gruesome murder will take place the following night. The sadistic sports teacher Grace Springer is found pierced by a javelin in the remote gym . It quickly becomes clear that this incident will have an impact on the reputation of the boarding school. Miss Bulstrode tries not to let what happened to the public, but after an attempted murder, the unmasking of an MI5 agent and another murder of the French teacher Mademoiselle Blanche, the bloodletting of the student body can no longer be stopped. Now it is up to Poirot to convict the murderer and thus restore the school's reputation.

Locations

Hemel Hempstead School in Hertfordshire . Joyce Grove Manor in Nettlebed, Oxfordshire, built in 1908 in Jacobean architecture , served as the backdrop for Meadowbank . Meadow means "meadow" in English.

literature

  • Agatha Christie : The cat in the dovecote (Original title: Cat Among the Pigeons ). German by Pieke Biermann. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, 207 pages, ISBN 3-596-16826-0 .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. Release certificate for The Cat in the Dovecote . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2013 (PDF; test number: 139 319 V).