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Retrospective

Mord im Orientexpress

FromSIDNEY LUMET

WithAlbert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Sean Connery

Year1974

Duration131min.

LanguageEnglish

Previously dissatisfied with most film adaptations of her works, Agatha Christie was thrilled with Lumet's crime thriller: Albert Finney plays Hercule Poirot with eccentric severity (and an admittedly oversized moustache), surrounded by a star-studded ensemble that is second to none. The eponymous Orient Express, snowed in somewhere between Istanbul and Calais, becomes a stage for moral grey areas, and the master detective has only a few hours to solve the mystery of the murder of one of the passengers. Each compartment becomes a stage, each suspect a piece of the puzzle. Guilt, revenge and justice merge into a cool, murderous round dance with an absurd yet captivating resolution – a perverted counterpoint to Lumet's TWELVE ANGRY MEN, so to speak.