8.0Season 1 • Episode 5
LatestIn addition to the inspector, Dr. Sheppard and Hercule Poirot are present at the interrogation of the detainee suspected of killing Charles Kent. To deny that Charles was on Ackroyd’s estate is useless. First, Sheppard recognized his voice - that evening a stranger asked him how to get to a well-known address. Secondly, Poirot shows irrefutable evidence that Charles was in the gazebo. Under the bench, he lost an empty goose feather, where he kept drugs. Now the pen cavity is empty, but any examination will confirm that it is a drug container. Charles recalls that the newspaper indicated the exact time of the murder - from a quarter to ten to ten in the evening. And at a quarter to ten, he had already made a scandal in an eatery a mile from the house where the murder occurred, witnesses can confirm this. Charles went on a date to the estate, with whom - this does not concern anyone.
A film adaptation of the novel by Agatha Christie, "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd." The owner of the mansion, Roger Ackroyd, was killed in his own office. The investigation is conducted by two - a local inspector and Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Everyone is suspected: nephew, household, servants, guests. Everyone has an alibi and everyone conceals something, but at the same time hopes for Poirot and a fair outcome of the investigation. All but the true killer. But Poirot is not in a hurry, he patiently accumulates facts, gets rid of contradictions, frees everyone from a burdensome secret and remains face to face with the killer, facts, logic and a difficult human feeling - disappointment ...
Acting
Raykin's Poirot: fussy, brilliant, quietly devastating
Direction
Ursuliak builds dread through drawing rooms and tea
Writing
Christie's locked-room perfection, preserved and weaponized
Creator
Sergei Ursuliak
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Raykin, a legendary Russian theater actor, reportedly practiced Poirot's walk by studying how a penguin holds its dignity.
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