Death on the Nile (2004)

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Episode of the series Agatha Christie's Poirot
title Death on the Nile
Original title Death on the Nile
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Season 9, episode 3
52nd episode overall ( list )
First broadcast April 12, 2004 on ITV
German-language
first broadcast		 December 25, 2005 on NDR
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Director Andy Wilson
script Kevin Elyot
production Margaret Mitchell
music Christopher Gunning
camera Martin Fuhrer
cut John Mayes
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Death on the Nile (original title: Death on the Nile ) is a long episode from the ninth season of the British television series Agatha Christie's Poirot from 2004 by Andy Wilson . It is the film adaptation of the 1937 novel Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie .

action

Hercule Poirot is on vacation in a hotel in Egypt . There he is approached by Linnet Ridgeway-Doyle. She and her husband are being persecuted and molested by her husband's former fiancée, Jacqueline De Bellefort. Poirot should drive this terrible behavior out of her. The latter refuses, however, that he is on vacation. Shortly afterwards, however, he meets Jacqueline, whom he then tries to dissuade from her "dark path" out of pity. It does not help. The next day, Poirot and the Doyles set out on a journey on the Nile. They meet Jacqueline again on board the luxury steamer. This makes the journey more eventful for all passengers than expected. Because after a few days, enriched with famous Egyptian cultural treasures by going ashore in the best company, Linnet Ridgeway-Doyle is found lifeless in her cabin. She was hit by a head shot in her sleep. While she had already gone to bed, however, an argument broke out in which her husband was allegedly shot by Jacqueline De Bellefort. In the hustle and bustle that followed, however, the murderous tool, a handgun for a woman's handbag, was lost. However, the main suspect De Bellefort now has an alibi because she was guarded at the time of the murder. The husband is also eliminated as a perpetrator due to his gunshot wound. So the now present Colonel Race and Poirot take over the investigation. After several interrogations, there are two more murders, which Poirot brings ever closer to the perpetrators and Poirot finally succeeds in convicting the perpetrators based on the testimony of witnesses. But they evade charge.

background

The SS Sudan , who played the SS Karnak in the film

The film was shot in the temples of Karnak and Abu Simbel as well as on the Nile on board the SS Sudan (in the film SS Karnak).

literature

  • Agatha Christie : The death on the Nile (Original title: Death on the Nile ). German by Pieke Biermann. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, 318 pages, ISBN 3-596-16541-5

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supporting documents

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Death on the Nile . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2008 (PDF; test number: 115 073 DVD).