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A Very English Murder (1974)

A Very English Murder (1974)

Mystery TV Movie
Release Date: 1974, December 14
Directors: Samson Samsonov
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mosfilm
Cast: Faime Jurno, Ivan Pereverzev, Irina Muravyova, Boris Ivanov, Georgi Taratorkin, Aleksey Batalov, Aleksandr Vigdorov, Eugenija Pleskyte, Nikolay Keyl, Leonid Obolensky, Sergey Goremykin, Einari Koppel

Overview:

A classic detective story based on one of the best-loved Golden Age crime writers, Cyril Hare, novel "An English Murder" originally published in 1951. The setting of An English Murder seems, at first, to be a very conventional one. A group of family and friends come together for Christmas at a country house, Warbeck Hall. The house is owned by Lord Warbeck, a dying and impoverished peer who wants to be among loved ones for what he thinks will be his last Christmas. The holiday decorations are up and snow is falling fast outside. The guests range from the Lord's difficult son to a visiting Czech historian. There is, of course, a faithful butler and his ambitious daughter. But when the murders begin, there is nothing at all conventional about them - or the manner of their detection...