A Very English Murder | |
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Directed by | Samson Samsonov |
Screenplay by | Edgar Smirnov Vadim Yusov |
Starring | Aleksey Batalov Leonid Obolensky Georgy Taratorkin |
Music by | Eduard Artemyev |
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Running time | 165 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
A Very English Murder (Russian: Чисто английское убийство, romanized: Chisto angliyskoe ubiystvo) is a 1974 Soviet teleplay directed by Samson Samsonov, based on the 1951 novel An English MurderbyCyril Hare.
The film begins as relatives and friends come to Lord Warbeck's family castle for Christmas. Suddenly, during dinner, Robert Warbeck, the only son and heir of the old Lord, dies in front of the guests. Then Lord Warbeck himself dies. And then — one of the ladies guests in the house… Because of snow drifts police can not reach the house; the only police present is the Minister's guard, and not an investigator. Foreigner doctor Bottwink — a historian, invited by Lord Warbeck to work in his old library — is the only one who is able to understand what had happened. However, the investigation is complicated by the fact that almost all those present are connected with each other by strange, unpleasant and sometimes unexpected relationships.
Overall, the film closely follows the novel. The introduction is compressed. The excursion undertaken by Sir Julius to a nearby village (Chapter XIV in the novel) has been removed.
Noticeable changes were made to soften the political conflict depicted in the novel.[1][2]
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