Below is a post by my friend and our project screenwriter Lee Shackleford announcing that Sir David Suchet has signed on to narrate our four part mini-series. I was a part of a Zoom call to meet him, from London, last December, a very humble and gracious man. He concluded our meeting by saying, “I’m here and I’m with you all. And listen also, Matt, no more ‘Sir’. I’m just David. I’m part of the team. No hierarchy. It’s very nice to be a ‘Sir’ but I never expect [to be addressed so]… it doesn’t sit that easily on me. But I believe now that I am [with you and the team] I’m a member of a wonderful family!”
Here is to seeing it all come to fruition before next December rolls around!
Stay tuned for more announcements! You can also follow the mini-series announcements and previews and opportunities to support at https://magdeburgtrain.com/.
We are beyond elated to announce that one of the world’s finest and most widely-acclaimed actors has joined the adventure of A Train Near Magdeburg. Our narration will be performed by none other than Sir David Suchet, multiple-award-winning star of stage and screen.
Though he has been performing professionally since 1969 (!) he is best-known around the world for his portrayal of Agatha Christie’s eccentric detective Hercules Poirot in the long-running TV series Poirot.
While we were searching for exactly the right talent for our narrator, Sir David was looking for us — that is, for a way to add his talents to a significant story about Jews in the Holocaust. He is himself of Lithuanian-Jewish descent; his father was “Suchedowitz” in the old country. He told us he has recently learned more about the fate of his Lithuanian relatives during the Holocaust and has since been eager to honor their legacy with a project like ours.
Sir David has recently completed an extraordinary tour of the world following the path once taken by Agatha Christie, with whom he naturally feels a strong personal bond. That entire adventure can be seen in the outstanding documentary series Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet.
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