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Foreign language adaptations of Agatha Christie have been prolific and highly successful. In many cases, not only the language is changed, but also the geographical, chronological and cultural setting, often with a great deal of success.

For English language adaptations, see Adaptations of Agatha Christie

Audio-visual[]

Year Title Based on Country Format Notes Avail[1]
1929 Die Abenteurer G.m.b.H. The Secret Adversary Germany film First Christie foreign film adaptation; a German adaptation of The Secret Adversary W
1932 Le Coffret de laque Black Coffee France film
1954 Die Fuchsjagd Three Blind Mice/The Mousetrap West Germany tv
1955 Hercule Poirot klärt den Mord im Orient-Express auf Murder on the Orient Express West Germany TV
1955 Musefælden The Mousetrap Denmark tv
1956 Das Spinnennetz Spider's Web West Germany tv
1956 Três Ratinhos Cegos Three Blind Mice Portugal tv
1957 O Caso dos Dez Negrinhos And Then There Were None Brazil tv Portuguese
1957 Ein Fremder kam ins Haus Love from a Stranger West Germany tv
1960 Chupi Chupi Aashey The Mousetrap and Three Blind Mice (radio play and short story) India film Uncredited adaptation in Bengali; possibly the only notable film version of the celebrated play.
1961 Teia de Aranha Spider's Web Portugal tv
1963 O Caso dos Dez Negrinhos And Then There Were None Brazil tv
1965 Gumnaam And Then There Were None India film Uncredited adaptation in Hindi
1967 Ein Fremder klopft an Love from a Stranger West Germany tv
1969 Zehn kleine Negerlein And Then There Were None West Germany tv
1969 La toile d'araignée Spider's Web France tv
1970 Nadu Iravil And Then There Were None India film Tamil
1970 Mord im Pfarrhaus The Murder at the Vicarage West Germany tv W
1970 Dix petits nègres And Then There Were None France tv
1970 5 bambole per la luna d'agosto And Then There Were None Italy film
1973 Black Coffee Black Coffee West Germany tv
1973 Dhund The Unexpected Guest India film

Hindi

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1974 Achra Abid Zghar And Then There Were None Lebanon tv
1976 Pontikopagida Three Blind Mice Greece tv
1978 Deka Mikroi Negroi And Then There Were None Greece tv
1980 Kirifuri sansou satsujin jiken The Unexpected Guest Japan tv
1980 La Tana The Hollow Italy tv W
1980 La tela del ragno Spider's Web Italy tv W
1980 Delitto retrospettivo Five Little Pigs Italy tv W
1980 L'ospite inatteso The Unexpected Guest Italy tv W
1980 Verso l'ora zero Towards Zero Italy tv W
1981 Ten Little Indians And Then There Were None Philippines film Tagalog W
1981 Endhauzo paslaptis Peril at End House Lithuania tv mini series
1983 Tayna chyornykh drozdov A Pocket Full of Rye USSR film W
1985 Kiken na onnatachi The Hollow Japanese film DVD
1986 Opzet of Ongeluk The Patient Netherlands tv W
1986 Pelėkautai The Mousetrap Lithuania tv mini series N
1987 Desyat Negrityat The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None USSR film W
1989 Tarka The Unexpected Guest India film Kannada language
1990 Myshelovka Three Blind Mice Russia film
1990 Puriyaadha Pudhir The Unexpected Guest India film Tamil
1990 Miss Marple'i lood Marple stories Estonia tv N
1990 Zagadka Endkhauza Peril at End House Russia tv W
1992 Jareemeh fee al zakera Sleeping Murder Syria tv series
1997 Aar Ya Paar Endless Night India film
1997 Chupp The Unexpected Guest India film
2001 Manekarezarukyaku: Fujisanroku renzoku satsujin jiken The Unexpected Guest Japan tv
2002 Neudacha Puaro The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Russia tv W
2003 Shubho Mahurat The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side India film Bengali W
2005 Mon petit doigt m'a dit... By the Pricking of My Thumbs France film DVD
2005 Agathe kann's nicht lassen Marple stories Austria/Germany tv 5 episodes broadcast from 2005 to 2007 DVD
2005 Meitantei Akafuji Takashi: ABC Satsujin Jiken The A.B.C. Murders Japan tv
2005 Meitantei Akafuji Takashi: Aishi no Sandoriyon The Murder on the Links Japan tv
2006 Petits meurtres en famille Hercule Poirot France tv mini series DVD
2006 Uso o tsuku shitai 4.50 from Paddington Japan tv
2007 Daijoyuu Satsujin Jiken The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side Japan tv
2007 Yokoku Satsujin A Murder is Announced Japan tv
2007 L'Heure zéro Towards Zero France film DVD
2008 Le crime est notre affaire 4.50 from Paddington France film DVD
2008 Le Grand Alibi The Hollow France film DVD
2009 Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie Several works France tv series DVD
2011 Don Ghadicha Daav The Unexpected Guest India film
2011 El misterio de los diez desconocidos And Then There Were None Spain tv Two episodes of the Los misterios de Laura series N
2012 Associés contre le crime tv DVD
2012 Aduthathu And Then There Were None India film Tamil
2012 Grandmaster The A.B.C. Murders India film Malayalam W
2014 Achra Abid Zghar And Then There Were None Lebanon tv
2015 Abriaa Wa Laken Ordeal by Innocence and Appointment with Death Lebanon tv
2015 Oriento kyuukou satsujin jiken Murder on the Orient Express Japan tv DVD
2015 Aatagara And Then There Were None India film Kannada
2016 Chorabali Cards on the Table India film Bengali
2016 Locked Doors Crooked House Yemen tv series
2017 Soshite daremo inakunatta And Then There Were None Japan tv W
2018 Daijoyuu Satsujin Jiken The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side Japan tv W
2018 Kuroido Goroshi The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Japan tv DVD
2018 Paddington hatsu 4ji 50pun: Shindai Tokkyuu Satsuhin Jiken 4.50 from Paddington Japan tv DVD
2018 Miseu Ma, Boksooui Yeoshin Marple stories South Korea tv series Str
2018 Portrait (2018 film) Five Little Pigs India stream Str
2019 Raagala 24 Gantallo The Unexpected Guest India W
2019 Yokuko Satsujin A Murder is Announced Japan tv W
2020 Ils étaient dix And Then There Were None France tv DVD
2021 Shi to no Yakusoku Appointment with Death Japan tv W
2021 Agatha Christie's Hjerson Inspired by character Sweden tv series DVD
2022 Min Guo Da Zhen Tan Poirot stories China stream series Str
2022 A titokzatos stylesi eset The Mysterious Affair at Styles Hungary stream
2023 Charlie Chopra & The Mystery of Solang Valley The Sittaford Mystery India stream Str

Radio[]

Year Title Story based on Country Notes
1956 Der Mord an Roger Ackroyd oder: Alibi The Murder of Roger Ackroyd West Germany
1958 Die Fuchsjagd Three Blind Mice/The Mousetrap West Germany
1967 Die Stimme aus dem Grab Personal Call West Germany
1970 Mord im Pfarrhaus The Murder at the Vicarage West Germany
1994 Die spanische Truhe The Mystery of the Spanish Chest Germany
1995 Zeugin der Anklage The Witness for the Prosecution Germany
2001 Legale Tricks Butter in a Lordly Dish Germany
2006 Krimi-Sommer mit Hercule Poirot Poirot stories Germany radio series
2019 Das krumme Haus Crooked House Germany

Graphic novels[]

In the 1990s, French publisher Éditions Claude Lefranc began to issue a series of graphic novel adaptations in French. After 2000, more titles were added by Éditions Emmanuel Proust, making a total of 24 titles in all. From 2007 Eurocomics India working with HarperCollins released English translations of these adaptations with different covers for 21 of these titles.

From 2017 onwards, Swiss publisher Paquet began to issue another series of graphic novel adaptations in French. These include not only stories featuring Poirot, Miss Marple and Tommy and Tuppence but also some of Agatha Christie's stand-alone novels.

Chimunīzu-kan no himitsu is the title of a Japanese manga album published in 2006. The album contains manga adaptations in Japanese of The Secret of Chimneys, Sparkling Cyanide and Towards Zero.

Aozametauma is the title of a Japanese manga in 2 volumes published in 2017. The album is a manga adaptation of The Pale Horse

Stage adaptations[]

Video games[]

Animation[]

In 2004 the Japanese broadcasting company Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai turned Poirot and Marple into animated characters in the anime series Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, introducing Mabel West (daughter of Miss Marple's mystery-writer nephew Raymond West, a canonical Christie character) and her duck Oliver as new characters.

Games[]

  • 2014 Diez Negritos - a board game in Spanish published by Peká Editorial.

References[]

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