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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...Read moreLess
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...
The story
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...
Cast & crew
Boris Ivanovсэр Джулиус Уорбек
Aleksey BatalovДоктор Ботвинк
Georgi TaratorkinРоберт Уорбек
Irina MuravyovaСюзанна
Ivan PereverzevБриггс
Faime Jurnoледи Камилла
Einari Koppelсержант Роджерс
Leonid Obolenskyлорд Уорбек
Eugenija Pleskyteмиссис Карстерс
Aleksandr Vigdorovсекретарь Джулиуса Уорбека
Valeria Menikovskayaмать леди Камиллы
Vladimir DoveikoСтилсExplore the crew
- Director
- Samson Samsonov
- Writer
- Edgar Smirnov
- Editor
- Ida Dorofeyeva
- Director of Photography
- Evgeniy Guslinskiy
- Writer
- Vadim Yusov