With open cards (2005)

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Episode of the series Agatha Christie's Poirot
title With open cards
Original title Cards on the table
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Season 10, episode 2
55th episode overall ( list )
First broadcast March 19, 2006 on ITV
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Director Sarah Harding
script Nick Dear
production Trevor Hopkins
music Stephen McKeon
camera David Marsh
cut David Rees
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
The Blue Express

Successor  →
The wax bouquet

With open cards (original title: Cards on the Table ) is a long episode from the tenth season of the British television series Agatha Christie's Poirot from 2005 by Sarah Harding . It is the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Agatha Christie from 1936.

action

Hercule Poirot , crime writer Ariadne Oliver, Colonel Hughes of British Secret Service and Superintendent Wheeler of Scotland Yard are invited to dinner with the mysterious Mr. Shaitana. At the same time four other guests are invited. During the bridge game that follows , the host is murdered.

Together with the detectives present, Poirot and Mrs. Oliver get to the bottom of the guests' past - because, according to Mr. Shaitana, each of them has a murder on their conscience. However, Poirot and Mrs. Oliver also have to reconstruct the bridge game they have started to find out who the killer is.

literature

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supporting documents

  1. Release certificate for With open cards . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2012 (PDF; test number: 133 163 V).