Nicotine (film)

Episode of the series Agatha Christie's Poirot
title	nicotine
Original title	Three Act Tragedy
Country of production	United Kingdom
original language	English
length	89 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
classification	Season 12, episode 1 62nd episode overall ( list )
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Director	Ashley Pearce
script	Nick Dear
production	Karen Thrussel
music	Christian Henson
camera	Peter Greenhalgh
cut	David Blackmore
occupation
David Suchet : Hercule Poirot Martin Shaw : Sir Charles Cartwright Kimberley Nixon : "Egg" Lytton Gore Art Malik : Sir Bartholomew Strange Suzanne Bertish : Miss Milray Anastasia Hille : Cynthia Dacres Ronan Vibert : Captain Derek Dacres Kate Ashfield : Miss Muriel Wills Jane Asher : Lady Mary Lytton Gore Anna Carteret : Mrs. Babbington Nigel Pegram : Pastor Steven Babbington Tom Wisdom : Oliver Manders Michael Hobbs : Medical Examiner Tony Maudsley : Superintendent Crossfield David Yelland : Butler George Jodie McNee : Housemaid Annie Prue Clarke : Sister Superior
chronology
←  Predecessor On a double track Successor  → The Halloween Party

Nicotine (original title: Three Act Tragedy ) is a long episode from the twelfth season of the British television series Agatha Christie's Poirot from 2010 by Ashley Pearce . It is the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Agatha Christie from 1934 and was filmed in and around London . In 2013 the episode was released on DVD as part of the Poirot Collection 10 with a German dubbed version.

It is already the second film adaptation, the first was shot with Sir Peter Ustinov as Murder in Three Acts (German title: Tödliche Parties ) in 1986.

action

Sir Charles Cartwright, a well-known actor and friend of Poirot, invites you to the evening event. During the greeting, Pastor Babbington collapses dead after taking a sip of a drink. At first it looks like a natural death. But a month later, one of the guests, Sir Bartholomew Strange, also invited to dinner and died under surprisingly similar circumstances. Before that, however, he had announced that he had learned something. Now it turns out that Sir Bartholomew was poisoned with nicotine , a colorless and odorless liquid that is normally used for spraying roses because of its properties as a strong neurotoxin. Together with Cartwright and the young Lytton Gore, called "Egg", Poirot begins to investigate. But a woman dies in the nursing home by taking chocolates and what has the Strange butler who has disappeared to do with the crime? Poirot is now staging a third evening reception to see his suspicions corroborated.

Reviews

Bookyurt says it's always a pleasure to see David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. Nicotine was an excellent detective story that would be solved in a way that only Hercule Poirot could.

Great Detectives praises that the film remains very faithful to the novel by, unlike Fatal Parties with Peter Ustinov , taking place in the same time and setting as in the book. The characters in the film are also very interesting.

literature

• Agatha Christie: Nicotine. Roman (Original Title: Three Act Tragedy ). German by Alfred von Bebber. Fischer Verlag, 222 pp., ISBN 3596166551 .

Web links

• Nicotine in the Internet Movie Database (English)

supporting documents

1. ↑ Release certificate for nicotine . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2014 (PDF; test number: 142 828 V).
2. ↑ Poirot XI: Three Act Tragedy - review
3. ↑ Telefilm Review: Three Act Tragedy