Dr Bourdon

In Un meurtre en sommeil, the French Télévisions film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Sleeping Murder, for the season 1 of the Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie TV series, Dr Bourdon is a psychiatrist working at a mental hospital in Douai. Among other things, he is directing the treatment of Sacha Poliakov who is a patient there. Dr Bourdon is portrayed by Rémy Gence. There is no parallel character in the original novel.

Bourdon uses electric convulsive therapy on Sacha. This is something he is very proud of as he has just obtained a state of the art electro convulsive therapy equipment from Italy which he shows off to commissaire Larosière. This is historically accurate as electroconvulsive therapy was pioneered by Ugo Cerletti in Italy in 1938, around the time in which the episode is set.