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May 18, 2022 · Yes, Denis Poncet is based on a real producer. Denis was born on October 29, 1948, in Toulon, a French port city on the Mediterranean coast. He began his career in a French radio company named RTL as a journalist.
Denis Poncet was born on 29 October 1948 in Toulon, Var, France. He was a producer and writer, known for Sin City Law (2007), Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001) and The Staircase (2004). He was married to Cornelia Theune. He died on 12 December 2014 in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
- Producer, Writer, Director
- October 29, 1948
- Denis Poncet
- December 12, 2014
May 6, 2022 · Vincent Vermignon and Frank Feys play the documentary director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and producer Denis Poncet, who connect with Peterson to begin filming him and his team shortly after his...
- Michael’s Motive
- The Blow Poke
- The Other Staircase Case
- The Documentary
Michael Peterson was bisexual and slept with men. The prosecution argued that Kathleen had discovered these affairs and confronted Michael and he had then bludgeoned her to death. The Petersons were also in substantial debt, and the insurance policy on Kathleen’s life was also brought up as a potential factor in Michael’s alleged plan to kill Kathl...
Much talk in the documentary, and some talk in the series, is of ‘the blow poke’. If your first thought is ‘what the hell is a blow poke’? You would not be alone. It’s a hollow metal stick a bit like a poker which you can use to stoke a fire (and blow down). Anyway, this was a focal point because for a time it was thought the Peterson’s missing blo...
This is a particularly weird detail. Some years back Michael was living in Germany with his first wife, Patti, when a friend of theirs, Liz Ratliff died. Bizarrely she was found dead at the bottom of a staircase the morning after Michael had dropped her off. The death occurred 17 years before Kathleen’s, was ruled accidental by German authorities a...
The documentary team that made the docu series The Staircase are also part of the show. These are director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade played by Vincent Vermignon and producer Denis Poncet, played by Frank Feys. The two won a Best Documentary Oscar in 2001 for their film Murder on a Sunday Morning.
Denis Poncet was born on October 29, 1948 in Toulon, Var, France. He was a producer and writer, known for Sin City Law (2007), Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001) and The Staircase (2004). He was married to Cornelia Theune. He died on December 12, 2014 in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
- October 29, 1948
- December 12, 2014
May 5, 2022 · In real life, it was de Lestrade and Poncet who first sniffed out the dramatic potential of Michael Peterson’s murder trial in Durham, North Carolina.
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May 10, 2022 · Denis Poncet is a French producer and writer known for Sin City Law (2007), Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001) and The Staircase (2004), the last two which he collaborated with...
