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Apr 16, 2017 · Maigret: Night at the Crossroads: Directed by Sarah Harding. With Ben Caplan, Katherine Kanter, Robin Weaver, Wanda Opalinska. Maigret: Night at the Crossroads tells a complex tale of murder, deceit and greed set in an isolated country community.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Sarah Harding
- 2017-04-16
- Rowan Atkinson – Chief Inspector Maigret
- Shaun Dingwall – Inspector Janvier
- Aidan Mccardle – Judge Comeliau
- Ian Puleston Davies – Inspector Colombani
- Lucy Cohu – Mme Maigret
- Leo Staar – Inspector Lapointe
- Tom Wlaschiha – Carl Andersen
- Mia Jexen – Else Andersen
- Kevin Mcnally – Inspector Louis Grandjean
- Colin Mace – Inspector Lognon
Comedy legend Atkinson – best known for his iconic roles as Edmund Blackadder and Mr Bean – may seem an unlikely choice to play the pipe-smoking chief inspector. But if you think he’s donning Maigret’s trilby “in order to achieve some kind of respectability”, think again, the 61-year-old told Radio Timesthis week. The County Durham-born star starte...
Shaun Dingwall – who plays one of the trusted colleagues Maigret calls ‘The Faithful Four’ – already has plenty of police hours under his belt, having played DC Mark Rivers in three series of Paul Abbott’s Touching Evil, DI Mike Lewis in Lynda La Plante’s Above Suspicion, and a detective super on New Tricks. Away from the force, he’s best known for...
A judge who becomes Maigret’s rival over the course of several books, Comeliau is here played by Irish actor Aidan McCardle, most recently seen as Lord Loxley in Mr Selfridge. Prior to that, he’d carved out a niche playing real historical characters, including lawyer John Silvester in Garrow’s Law, Dudley Moore in the TV biopic Not Only But Always,...
Ian Puleston Davies is probably best known to viewers as Owen Armstrong – resident of Coronation Street'scobbles between 2010 and 2015. But since leaving the soap last year, he's bagged a string of top roles, appearing in ITV's Beowulf and Marcella before popping up in Channel 4 drama National Treasure. And his post-Corrie career looks set to go fr...
The latest in a long line of actresses to play Maigret’s wife, Lucy Cohu made her name as Major Jessica Bailey in Soldier, Soldier. She was nominated for both a Bafta and an Emmy for her portrayal of Princess Margaret in Channel 4’s 2005 biopic The Queen’s Sister. She would later take home an Emmy for her role in true-life drama Forgiven. Cohu co-s...
Another member of Maigret’s “Faithful Four”, Inspector LaPointe is played by Leo Staar, best known as Jenny Lee’s ill-fated boyfriend Alec Jesmond in Call the Midwife. (Remember when he died after that fall? It was a tearjerker, even by CTM’s standards.) Since then, he’s appeared in Casualty, Death in Paradise and Lewis, where hopefully he picked u...
A wealthy Danish man living at the Three Widows Crossroads, Carl shares a home with his sister, Else. But the aloof pair attract attention when a diamond merchant – Isaac Goldberg – is found dead in their neighbour, Emile Michonnet’s, garage. The body is at the wheel of Carl’s car leading Maigret to question whether the Andersens are caught up in h...
The glamorous sister of Carl, Else proves a distraction for the fastidious – and married – Maigret who can’t help but notice the alluring Danish woman. Living with her brother at the crossroads, Else gets caught up in the investigation into Goldberg’s killing. Is she as innocent as she makes out? Danish actress Mia Jexen is best known for playing P...
Grandjean joins Rowan Atkinson’s Maigret in his attempts to track down the real killer of Isaac Goldberg. Kevin McNally may be familiar to Pirates of the Caribbean fans thanks to his portrayal of Joshamee Gibbs in all four films – he also has a role in the fifth, due for release later this year. An actor for more than 40 years, he has cropped up in...
Nicknamed “the ungracious inspector”, Lognon represents a promotion for Colin Mace, who’s earlier this year played a detective sergeant in BBC Three kidnap drama Thirteen. Other recent credits include Stan Lee’s Lucky Man, Cradle to Grave, Call the Midwife, Foyle’s War and The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies.
- Paul Kirkley
Maigret at the Crossroads (French: La Nuit du carrefour) is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. Published in 1931, it is one of the earliest novels to feature Inspector Maigret in the role of the chief police investigator, a character that has since become one of the best-known detectives in fiction.
- Georges Simenon, Robert Baldick
- 1931
Apr 17, 2017 · The murder Maigret was investigating in Maigret's Night at the Crossroads (ITV) was of a Jewish jewel fence called Goldberg who, we later discovered, was recklessly eager to pull off one last high-yield deal before heading west with his wife.
Night at the Crossroads (French: La Nuit du carrefour) is a 1932 French crime film by Jean Renoir, based on the novel of the same title (known in English as Maigret at the Crossroads) by Georges Simenon and starring Renoir's brother Pierre Renoir as Simenon's popular detective, Inspector Maigret.
Maigret: Night at the Crossroads tells a complex tale of murder, deceit and greed set in an isolated country community. Maigret has been interrogating a mysterious Dane, Carl Andersen, for hours without a confession. Why was the body of a diamond merchant found in his car at his isolated mansion?
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Maigret's Night at the Crossroads starts with a Jewish jewel fence called Goldberg who goes against his wife's wishes and tries to pull off a last job before moving to America. He's shot at a quiet crossroads in the countryside just outside Paris and his body is discovered the next morning in the garage of a secretive man with a disfigured body ...
