Hercule Poirot lands in Venice. The Serenissima will be the wonderful set of by’s new film Kenneth Branagh which will be released this year in the USA and in which Riccardo Scamarcio is one of the protagonists.
A Haunting in Venice, produced by 20th Century Studios, is the film version of Poirot and the Massacre of the Innocent by Agatha Christie. The well-known commissioner wanders through the calli and campi of the lagoon city.
The filming locations of Poirot and the Massacre of the Innocents
Many Venetian locations are protagonists of the film. The detective Hercule Poirot During the days of the Halloween party, he finds himself at a séance in a decadent building overlooking the Grand Canal. And this is where the fans will go into raptures.
As if that wasn’t enough, you’ll also see another classic: the Rialto Bridge, one of the four bridges that cross the Grand Canal but the most famous of them all. Just as you will see St. Mark’s Square in all its majesty and beauty.
But there are also some unreleased sets. how Palazzo Pisani, today home of the music conservatory “Benedetto Marcello”; the Scala Contarini del Bovolo, the most impressive and valuable spiral staircase in Venice; the Church of Miracoli and the area of the canals, between Campiello Widmann and Rio dei Mendicanti in Campo dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, and Malipiero PalaceFormerly called “la Ca’ Granda de’ San Samuel”, also overlooking the Grand Canal.
In short, a beautiful postcard of Venice that certainly does not need tourist promotion but is always a fascinating place that offers many ideas to any director who wants to make a film or a TV series.
An open air set
The beauty of Venice has always enchanted actors and directors. So Americans are crazy about it. Take Tom Cruise, for example, who opted for the Grand Canal as a set of many action scenes from the last episode of “Mission Impossible” with a naturally stunning sequence.
He, too, had fallen in love with the Palazzo Pisani, where he had filmed some sequences, but then chose the terrace of The Gritti Palace, a luxury hotel on Campo Santa Maria del Giglio, and many other unpublished locations.