Murder in the Mirror (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Murder in the mirror |
| Original title | The Mirror Crack'd |
| Country of production | UK |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Guy Hamilton |
| script |
Jonathan Hales Barry Sandler |
| production |
John Brabourne Richard B. Goodwin |
| music | John Cameron |
| camera | Christopher Challis |
| cut | Richard Marden |
| occupation | |
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Mord im Spiegel (Original title: The Mirror Crack'd ) is a British crime film from 1980 directed by Guy Hamilton . Jonathan Hales and Barry Sandler adapted Agatha Christie 's novel of the same name from 1962 . The scenes were shot at Twickenham Film Studios , Twickenham , London and Kent .
action
The small English village of St. Mary Mead, home of Miss Marple , is delighted when a major American film company decides to direct a film there that will depict the relationship between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I , played by famous actresses Marina Rudd and Lola Brewster tells. Marina arrives with her husband Jason, the director. When she realizes that Lola will also be in the film, she reacts choleric because Lola and Marina can't stand each other.
Marina has received death threats. Shortly thereafter, a fan of Marina's Heather Babcock dies at a party at the mansion after drinking a poisoned cocktail that was apparently meant for Marina. Immediately before that, Heather had told Marina in an extensive monologue about an earlier encounter in a theater where Heather had kissed Marina. Everyone now believes Marina should have been the real victim, but Inspector Craddock, who is handling the case, is unsure, which is why he turns to his aunt, Miss Jane Marple, for help.
A service Botin says during the investigation that Marina had accepted a petrified expression while talking with Heather and staring at a painting of a Madonna and Child by Bellini. In the further course Marina claims to have recognized a coffee offered to her as being poisoned and then refuses to enjoy it. In fact, arsenic is detected in it.
In the end it turns out that Marina herself is the perpetrator and has faked the death threats and the poison attack on herself. She used to have a disabled child after developing rubella during pregnancy . During Heather's monologue, Marina became aware of the connection between her hitherto unexplained infection, whereupon she decided to kill Heather. In the end, Marina commits suicide.
For a more detailed synopsis, see: Murder in the Mirror .
synchronization
| role | actor | Dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|
| Miss Jane Marple | Angela Lansbury | Gudrun Genest |
| Ella Zielinsky | Geraldine Chaplin | Marianne Lutz |
| Martin N. Fenn | Tony Curtis | Herbert Stass |
| Inspector Craddock | Edward Fox | Jürgen Thormann |
| Jason Rudd | Rock Hudson | Horst Schön |
| Lola Brewster | Kim Novak | Hallgard Bruckhaus |
| Marina Rudd | Elizabeth Taylor | Bettina Schön |
| Cherry Baker | Wendy Morgan | Alexandra Lange |
| Dolly Bantry | Margaret Courtenay | Inge Estate |
| Butler bates | Charles Gray | Heinz Palm |
| Heather Babcock | Maureen Bennett | Rita Engelmann |
| Mayor | Eric Dodson | Toni Herbert |
| Vicar | Charles Lloyd Pack | Hermann Wagner |
| Dr. Haydock | Richard Pearson | Martin Hirthe |
Trivia
Pierce Brosnan made an appearance on the side of Elizabeth Taylor for only a few seconds, around the 70th minute of the movie.
The original title The Mirror Crack'd refers to a line from The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Tennyson (1st Baron Tennyson) , which is quoted by Miss Marple: The mirror crack'd from side to side. This was also the (longer) title of the novel by Agatha Christie.
Reviews
"Comfortable, unexciting Agatha Christie film, which tries to make up for the lack of tension with a top-class cast: since the story takes place in the film setting, a number of screen stars of bygone times get the opportunity to vain, smug appearances."
“In this semi-exciting film adaptation based on Agatha Christie, Angela Lansbury alludes to the memory of Margaret Rutherford , who embodied the sprightly amateur detective in the 1960s. Lansbury is best known worldwide through the TV series Murder is Her Hobby . What is remarkable, however, is the international star cast. "
“The film has a problem: Angela Lansbury is not Margaret Rutherford. Because as well as she plays, Rutherford's embodiment of Miss Marple will always be unmatched. And the supporting roles also remain astonishingly pale for an Agatha Christie film. It is true that there is an enormous cast of stars, but Elizabeth Taylor and Kim Novak are far from the shape of earlier days. "
DVD release
- Agatha Christie's murder in the mirror. Kinowelt 2002.
literature
- Agatha Christie : Murder in the Mirror . (Original title: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side ). German by Ursula Gail . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-596-16891-0 .
Web links
- Murder in the mirror in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Murder in the mirror. At: Synchronkartei.de.
- ↑ BIOGRAPHY: Pierce Brosnan Lifetime ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . At: lifetimetv.co.uk. Retrieved August 3, 2014.
- ↑ Murder in the mirror. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Murder in the mirror. At: prisma.de.
- ↑ Murder in the mirror. ( Memento of March 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive ). At: dvd-narr.de.
