In search of the Orient-Express
Status: Completed
Format : 2 x 45 min or 90 min
Genre(s): discovery, Documentary, History
Production company: BBC Studios France, Together Media, Bleu Kobalt
Main cast: Orhan Pamuk, Laura Thompson, Charles King
Exalted by filmmakers, fantasized by Agatha Christie, the Orient Express is the most famous train in the world, but who knows its true story?
From Paris to Istanbul, via Venice, this exclusive investigation tracks down the lost carriages of the legendary train that revolutionized the art of travel.
Follow the passion- driven work of train hunters, industrial archaeologists, antique train collectors, historians and writers (Charles King and Nobel Prize in Literature winner Orhan Pamuk), in order to recapture the great epic of the Orient Express.
A timeless journey between myth and reality.
- Director(s): Louis-Pascal Couvelaire
- Creator(s): Marc Eisenchteter, Louis-Pascal Couvelaire
- Cast: Orhan Pamuk, Laura Thompson, Charles King
- Screenplay: Marc Eisenchteter, Louis-Pascal Couvelaire, Michael Pitiot, Bernard Mathieu
- Producer(s): Patrice Gellé, Florence Sala
- Country of Origin: France
- Language: English
- Production date: 2019
- Date of first release: 16 March 2019