plot and cast of a crime film based on Agatha Christie

Tonight on Rai 3 at 21:50 the 2017 film “Murder on the Orient Express” directed by Kenneth Branagh with Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz based on the famous novel by Agatha Christie is broadcast.

Appointment with yellow, tonight on Paradise 3 from 21.50 and with secrets Murder on the Orient Expressfilm based onnovel of the same name by Agatha Christiepublished in 1934, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh in 2017.

Scenario

1930s. Detective Hercule Poirot He goes to Istanbul to relax, but is forced to unexpectedly return to London to solve the case. His friend Book, the director of the Orient Express, offers him a cabin on his train. It was on the train that Poirot met the famous businessman Samuel Ratchett, who wanted to hire him as his bodyguard for the duration of the journey, as he was frightened by threatening letters. But that night, the train is derailed by an avalanche, forcing him to stop to await help from a nearby station. The next morning, Poirot discovers that Ratchett was killed during the night with 12 stab wounds. The detective begins an investigation that will involve 13 passengers are suspected.

Actors

An all-star cast features in the second adaptation of one of the most famous detective novels of all time (the first to bring it to the screen was Sidney Lumet in 1974). Kenneth Branagh, also the director, keeps the lead role of Hercule Poirot to himself. They move next to him Michelle Pfeiffer (Caroline Hubbard/Linda Arden) Penelope Cruz (Pilar Estravados), Willem Dafoe (Cyrus Bethman Hardman / Gerhard Hardman), Judi Dench (Natalia Dragomirova), Johnny Depp (John Cassetti/Edward Ratchett), Josh Gad (Hector McQueen), Derek Jacobi (Edward Henry Masterman), Leslie Odom Jr. (John Arbuthnot), Daisy Ridley (Mary Debenham), Lucy Boynton (Helena Goldenberg), Sergei Polunin (Rudolf Andreniy), Olivia Colman (Hildegard Schmidt) and Marwan Kenzari (Pierre Michel).