Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
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| German title | Murder on the Orient Express |
| Original title | Murder on the Orient Express |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English ; occasionally: French , German , Dutch |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 114 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
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| Director | Kenneth Branagh |
| script | Michael Green |
| production |
Ridley Scott Mark Gordon Simon Kinberg Kenneth Branagh Judy Hofflund Michael Schaefer |
| music | Patrick Doyle |
| camera | Haris Zambarloukos |
| cut | Mick Audsley |
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Murder on the Orient Express (Original title: Murder on the Orient Express ) is an American crime film with the star cast of Kenneth Branagh from 2017 . The film is based on the novel of the same name by Agatha Christie from 1934 and is the fifth film adaptation of the material. It was filmed in Super Panavision 70 .
action
Hercule Poirot takes the legendary Orient Express on his way back from one of his falls . The train stops on a viaduct because the locomotive has derailed due to a snow avalanche . The amateur art dealer Ratchett is found murdered and Poirot investigates the other travelers - one of them must be the perpetrator. There are the Spanish missionary Pilar Estravados, the governess Mary Debenham, Professor Gerhard Hardman, the widow Mrs. Hubbard and the Doctor Arbuthnot, but Poirot soon realizes that the trail to the murderer leads through the victim. He has to hurry, because it is not clear whether the perpetrator might strike again.
Poirot is able to find out that the named fellow travelers are all connected to the Armstrong case. The Armstrong couple's daughter Daisy had been kidnapped and killed despite the payment of a ransom. Ratchett was, in truth, the fugitive Daisy killer Cassetti. The Spanish missionary Estravados was the Armstrong's nanny, Debenham was the governess there, Hardman was an investigative policeman and was in a relationship with the innocent convict, Mrs. Hubbard is Daisy's grandmother and the doctor's comrade in the regiment as well as Armstrong's protégé. The son of the then prosecutor and the Armstrong's butler are also involved.
Because all of the above made themselves suspicious, Poirot concludes that Mrs. Hubbard had put those involved around Cassetti in position, booked them on the train that Cassetti wanted to travel on, and that they had all killed Cassetti together.
When the train has been dug up again and can continue, the local police arrive and Poirot admitted - quite contrary to his conviction - that there was an assassin who had now fled. At the next station, Poirot is called to his next case , which has taken place on the Nile .
Production notes
Director Kenneth Branagh likes to use motifs from cultural history. In the interview, he commented on the similarity between the arrangement of the suspects at the end of the film and the arrangement of the apostles in Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting of the Last Supper . He had seen the painting in Milan two years earlier. Poirot also subliminally asks who the traitor is. The people at the table all suffered from what Shakespeare called "the poison of deep grief" in Hamlet and which turns civilized people into murderers.
publication
The first images from the film were published in an exclusive article in Entertainment Weekly on May 3, 2017 .
In the United Kingdom, the film opened on November 3, 2017; the world premiere took place the evening before in London's Royal Albert Hall . The film was released in German cinemas on November 9, 2017, and in US cinemas one day later.
The work was released on DVD and Blu-Ray in the United States and Canada on February 27, 2018. The first version that could be played across Europe appeared in the United Kingdom on March 5, and the German version followed on March 22, 2018.
continuation
In 2015, James Prichard, Chairman of Agatha Christie Ltd. and Christie's great-grandson, euphoric about possible sequels and the collaboration with Branagh and the team. In May 2017, Branagh announced further sequels if the film was a success. On November 20, 2017 it was officially confirmed that there would be another film. Death on the Nile is slated for release in US cinemas on October 9, 2020. Again Branagh will direct and lead.
synchronization
The synchronization of the film was done at RC Production based on a dialogue book and directed by Axel Malzacher .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Hercule Poirot | Kenneth Branagh | Martin Umbach |
| Bouc | Tom Bateman | Ricardo Richter |
| Pilar Estravados | Penelope Cruz | Claudia Lössl |
| Mr. Hardman | Willem Dafoe | Pure beauty |
| Princess Natalia Dragomiroff | Judi Dench | Kerstin de Ahna |
| Edward Ratchett | Johnny Depp | David Nathan |
| Hector MacQueen | Josh Gad | Gerrit Schmidt-Foss |
| Edward Masterman | Derek Jacobi | Friedhelm Ptok |
| Dr. Arbuthnot | Leslie Odom Jr. | Nico Sablik |
| Caroline Hubbard | Michelle Pfeiffer | Andrea Aust |
| Mary Debenham | Daisy Ridley | Kaya Marie Möller |
| Countess Elena Andrenyi | Lucy Boynton | Jodie Blank |
| Count Rudolph Andrenyi | Sergei Polunin | Axel Malzacher |
| Hildegarde Schmidt | Olivia Colman | Susanne von Medvey |
| Chief Inspector | Michael Rouse | Julius Jellinek |
criticism
The headline in the Vanity Fair film review reads: " Murder on the Orient Express [...]: Kenneth Branagh is the culprit in this screwed up crime thriller". With great material and a strong cast, he turned Agatha Christie's 1934 novel into a squishy , inflated project of vanity with the help of his screenwriter Michael Green and an overzealous art director . Branagh, seduced by his budget and the possibilities of computer animation, immersed his actors in an artificial world. "How boring ( accidentically bland ) it all seems when a glamorous visual abundance was intended." Murder on the Orient Express is at the same time deadly serious and sentimental, almost an antithesis to Agatha Christie's deliciously cool narrative.
The British Guardian's criticism is just as negative . “The star cast of the film ranges from Johnny Depp to Judi Dench. But this snowy Agatha Christie adaptation is a dusty, old-fashioned dud ”.
Martin Schwickert rated the film as "good" in the Rheinische Post and found: "A thoroughly successful remake that treats the original with love and respect, refreshes it in the right places and finds its own access without strenuous modernization."
Web links
- Murder on the Orient Express in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Murder on the Orient Express atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Footnotes
- ^ Certificate of Release for Murder on the Orient Express . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 173430 / K).
- ↑ Age rating for murder on the Orient Express . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ Robert Mitchell: All-Star 'Murder on the Orient Express' Cast Assembles in London . Variety . 5th May 2017.
- ↑ www.in70mm.com , www.panavision.com
- ↑ Thomas Abeltshauser: Is it true that you are a control freak, Mr. Branagh? WAZ , November 11, 2017, accessed November 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Clark Collis: This Week's Cover: Exclusive First Look at Murder on the Orient Express . In: Entertainment Weekly , May 3, 2017.
- ↑ Julia Pritchard: Whodunnit best? Michelle Pfeiffer, Johnny Depp, Daisy Ridley and Penelope Cruz kill it on red carpet for world premiere of Murder On The Orient Express , Daily Mail , November 2, 2017
- ↑ Brent Lang: Steven Spielberg Pentagon Papers Drama Gets 2017 Oscar Season Release . In: Variety , April 22, 2017.
- ↑ Dave McNary: Kenneth Branagh to Direct, star in 'Murder on the Orient Express' Remake . In: Variety , November 20, 2015. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
- ^ Clark Collis: 'Murder on the Orient Express' Star Kenneth Branagh Wants to Make More Poirot Movies . May 4, 2017. Retrieved May 31, 2017.
- ↑ Murder on the Orient Express in the German synchronous file
- ↑ Murder on the Orient-Express, movie reviews Vanity Fair, accessed December 9, 2017.
- ↑ Peter Bradshaw's film of the week The Guardian, November 2, 2017, accessed December 9, 2017
- ↑ Martin Schwickert: Hercule Poirot determined again. Kenneth Branagh manages a great new edition of the Agatha Christie classic with "Mord im Orient-Express" . In: Rheinische Post, November 10, 2017, p. D8. Online version.Retrieved November 10, 2017.