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A Very English Murder
Summary
A Very English Murder (Chisto angliyskoe ubiystvo) is a 1974 Soviet teleplay directed by Samson Samsonov, based on the 1951 novel An English Murder by Cyril 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.
In the novel, Doctor Wenceslaus Bottwink, Ph.D., professor of history, is said to be born in Hungary, having Jewish and Russian blood. Fortunate to escape a Nazi concentration camp, he found himself on the shores of Great Britain. In the film, neither the first name nor ethnicity of Doctor Bottwink is revealed, although he is mentioned as a citizen of Austria, then Czechoslovakia, then Germany as the Second World War progressed.
In the novel, the League of Liberty and Justice, organized by Robert Warbeck, is a fascist organization. In the film the League is described only as extremist.
In the novel, Warbeck is clearly antisemitic. Unable to contain his political leanings even when talking to Lady Camilla, he bursts, "Has your new Jew friend asked you to go back to Palestine with him yet?" In the film this dialogue has been removed, although the nationalistic character of Robert's organization is established.
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