And would not you just know it? The first of these three new movies just happens to be the "Murder on the Orient Express", one of the most famous mysteries of Agatha Christie with the image of a demanding little Belgian detective Hercule Poirot's name, which was played for many years, David Suchet.
Well, matches and a general lack of evidence aside, David Suchet on the Orient Express "is entertaining, mainly because Suchet our guide.
After he arrived in Calais, France, through chunnel, he should not worry about the mistakes of the Orient Express for a mere mortal means of transit: train massively high, a quarter of a mile in length, with three restaurants, cocktail car and 12 passenger coaches, all exquisitely turned and put in order of their 1920 grandeur.
Even in 1874, another smart Belgium, Georges Nagelmackers, founded the Compagnie Internationale des-Lits carriages, after the parent company of the first Orient Express, as well as other luxury trains, ran across Europe. Orient Express began between Paris and Istanbul, and eventually ran all the way from Calais to Turkey until 1977, when the Istanbul station was, well, stopped.
The beauty and the thin film required almost exclusively dizziness Suchet on the trip in such high style, especially the exquisitely appointed rail cars (eg car Lalique, decorated with scenes of bacchanalian available in this fine glass designed by Lalique himself).
Between the dining room for gourmet meals (chef works 12 to 15 hours a day - they are particularly proud of souffles, they are, given the problems of baking pastry on a moving train - Suchet explains the importance of the train of European history. His own grandfather, he notes, had the opportunity to emigrate from Lithuania to England because of the train. In 1918 the Germans surrendered to the Allies in the Orient Express train. Later, when Hitler invaded France, he was in the same car to make it capitulate French, demonstrating an understanding of symbolism in cold blood.
All this was of epochal significance, of course, but for the purposes of "Masterpiece Mystery", is even more remarkable that in 1929 the Orient Express train was snowbound for 10 days. In fact, the private land in the sleeper is in the car, which was part of the train. But more importantly, Agatha Christie was able to adapt the event as a device for the development of "Murder on the Orient Express": in the novel, the victims and 13 suspects, all captured on the train because it hit a small mountain of snow - more convenient for Poirot to go about solving the mystery.
But Suchet himself, obviously the high point of his journey becomes a ride on the Orient Express for a while (with the train engineer helped, of course). When he gave his team makes contact, you might think, he received an Emmy Award.
Eventually, the land in a position to solve what he calls the "mystery" Orient Express, namely that it allowed the passengers to leave their life, care and peace for a few days of travel in luxury, among others, to be friends for a few days and then lost each other forever, and profits in relatively short time in a distant country.
Today on the Orient Express is a throwback to old times, not only because of its beautifully restored glory, but also because the weakening of borders between European countries, especially after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the establishment of the European Union, to evaporate a lot of mystique to navigate between them .
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