In fact, we got in just in time as we were told when we were filming it was about to be knocked down, too.’ For Knippenberg’s villa they took over an old house in Bangkok’s northern limits, near to the ancient city of Ayutthaya, using the real-life Knippenberg’s own photographs to dress it, as they did for his embassy, recreated in a building in Samut Sakhon on the western edges. We spent a lot of time looking in the older quarters and used a local production company to hunt down locations.’įor Sobhraj’s apartment complex, Kanit House, the team needed one of the Forties blocks that used to fill the city but have now mostly been demolished: ‘All our research told us he lived in this kind of building and we found one on Sukhumvit Soi 4, off the main arterial road where all the nightlife is. ‘It’s a completely modernised city,’ says Testar, ‘so the challenge was to find the pockets that haven’t altered as much or where the modernisation could be disguised. In The Serpent, Charles Sobhraj and his long-time girlfriend, Marie Andrée-Leclerc use their assumed identities as the gem-dealing married couple, Alain and Monique, to con young backpackers and. Let us remind you, as we all witness at the end of Episode 5 of The Serpent, Charles, who goes by the name Alain Gautier in the show proposed to his accomplice, Monique, whose real name is Marie-Andrée Leclerc. The production’s first problem was dealing with the enormous changes Bangkok had undergone since the 1970s. So, here’s all the details that you need to know about the first wife of Sobhraj. Much of the series takes place in the Thai capital, where Sobhraj made his base and where Herman Knippenberg (Billy Howle) was stationed at the Netherlands Embassy. She was acquitted on one charge but found guilty on the other in 1980. Cosmopolitan reported Leclerc, a French-Canadian medical secretary who met Sobhraj in the spring of 1975 while traveling in India, was officially charged with being an accomplice to two murders attributed to Sobhraj in 1976. Bangkok apartment BBC/Mammoth Screen BANGKOK Marie-Andre Leclerc died of ovarian cancer in 1984.
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