Murder on the Orient Express is a work of detective fiction by English writer Agatha Christie featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 1 January 1934. In the United States, it was published on 28 February 1934, under the title of Murder in the Calais Coach, by Dodd, Mead and Company. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.
Jodhi May is an English actress. Starting her career as a child actress, she is the youngest recipient of the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, for A World Apart (1988).
The Maids is a 1947 play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. It was first performed at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris in a production that opened on 17 April 1947, which Louis Jouvet directed.
Christine Papin and Léa Papin were two French sisters who, as live-in maids, were convicted of murdering their employer's wife and daughter in Le Mans on February 2, 1933.
La Cérémonie is a 1995 French-German psychological thriller film by Claude Chabrol, adapted from the 1977 novel A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell. The film echoes the case of Christine and Lea Papin, two French maids who brutally murdered their employer's wife and daughter in 1933, as well as the 1947 play they inspired, The Maids by Jean Genet.
The Brontë Sisters is a 1979 French biographical drama film directed by André Téchiné, who co-wrote the screenplay with Pascal Bonitzer and Jean Gruault. The film stars Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier and Isabelle Huppert as the Brontë sisters. The cinematography was by Bruno Nuytten. It was a project that Téchiné wanted to make since 1972, but only after the favourable reception of Souvenirs d'en France (1975) and Barocco (1976), he was able to find the necessary financing. Produced by Gaumont, the film's originally running time was cut from three to less than two hours upon its release at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.
Sylvie Testud is a French actress whose film career began in 1991. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for Murderous Maids (2000), the César Award for Best Actress for Fear and Trembling (2003), and the European Film Award for Best Actress for Lourdes (2009). Her other film roles include Beyond Silence (1996), La Vie en Rose (2007), and French Women (2014).
The Maids is a 1975 British film that was directed by Christopher Miles. It is based on the play of the same title by the French dramatist Jean Genet. The film stars Glenda Jackson as Solange, Susannah York as Claire, Vivien Merchant as Madame, and Mark Burns as Monsieur. The film was produced by Ely Landau for the American Film Theatre, which presented thirteen film adaptations of plays in the United States from 1973 to 1975.
Witness for the Prosecution is a 1982 American made-for-television drama film version of Agatha Christie's 1925 short story and 1953 play, and also a remake of the Billy Wilder film Witness for the Prosecution (1957).
Les Abysses is a 1963 French crime film directed by Nikos Papatakis. It was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival. A violent and surrealistic mixture of farce and social commentary, its story was inspired by the real-life case of the Papin sisters.
Murderous Maids is a French film directed by Jean-Pierre Denis, released in 2000, which tells the true story of two French maids, Christine and Lea Papin. The screenplay by Jean-Pierre Denis with Michèle Pétin, was based on the book L'affaire Papin by Paulette Houdyer. It told the story of the double murder committed by the maids, which made sensational headlines in France in 1933. The film had 360,846 admissions in France.
Bodil Rosing was a Danish stage and American film actress in the silent and sound eras.
Katie Skelly is an American comics artist and illustrator. She is best known for her graphic novels My Pretty Vampire, Maids, and Nurse Nurse.
The Jens Lauritzen House is a Neoclassical property at Nytorv 7 in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark. Home to the Association of Folk High Schools in Denmark, the building is now also known as Højskolernes Hus.
Worst Case, We Get Married is a 2017 French-Canadian drama film, directed by Léa Pool. Adapted from the novel by Sophie Bienvenu, the film stars Sophie Nélisse and Karine Vanasse.
Niels Hemmingsens Gade 32 is a historic building in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was built in the first half of the 1740s. A brewery was for more than one hundred years operated in a rear wing. Brødrene Cloëtta, one of Denmark's leading chocolate manufacturers of its day, was based in the building from 1865 until 1901. The three-winged building complex was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1981. A gilded Neptune figure is seen above the gateway and the keystone features the names of the first owners. Notable former residents include the naval officers Poul de Løvenørn and Peter Nicolay Skibsted, the businessman Conrad Hauser and the linguist Rasmus Rask.
Rosenborggade 10 is a Neoclassical property situated at the obtuse corner of Rosenborggade and Sankt Gertruds Stræde, close to Nørreport station, in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was constructed in 1801 by Lauritz Laurberg Thrane, one of the most prolific master builders in Copenhagen during the 1790s and 1800s. It was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1979. Former residents include the composer Johan Christian Gebauer and the portrait painter Geskel Saloman.
Maids is a 2020 graphic novel by Katie Skelly. It is about Christine and Léa Papin's 1933 murder of Genevieve and Léonie Lancelin, it was published by Fantagraphics.
Krigsråd Mørks Minde, situated at Lille Kannikestræde 4, is a charity with affordable accommodation for widows and unmarried women from the higher classes in Copenhagen, Denmark, established by Emilie Henriette Mørk (Mørch) in 1864–65 in memory of her father, Claudius Mørch, who was awarded the title of krigsråd. The Neoclassical building was constructed by master mason Christian Aagaard in 1830–31. It was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1950. Notable former residents include actor Ludvig Phister, cookbook writer Anne Marie Mangor, painter Emil Carlsen and Professor Nicolai Christopher Kall Rasmussen.
