A Very English Murder is a 1974 Soviet

Cinema of the Soviet Union

The cinema of the Soviet Union, not to be confused with "Cinema of Russia" despite Russian language films being predominant in both genres, includes several film contributions of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union reflecting elements of their pre-Soviet culture, language and history,...

 teleplay

Teleplay

A teleplay is a television play, a comedy or drama written or adapted for television. The term surfaced during the 1950s with wide usage to distinguish a television plays from stage plays for the theater and screenplays written for films...

 directed by Samson Samsonov

Samson Samsonov

Samson Iosifovich Samsonov was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter, he was granted the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1991....

, based on the novel An English Murder by Cyril Hare

Cyril Hare

Cyril Hare, the pseudonym of Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark was an English judge and crime writer.- Life and work :...

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The film has been shot on stage with multiple television cameras running simultaneously. Originally the film had been cut in two versions: a television version had three episodes, a movie theater version had two one-hour episodes. It seems that the television version has been lost, because the film is shown as two-episode movie when broadcast on TV. The DVD version also has two episodes.

Cast

• Aleksey Batalov
  Aleksey Batalov
  Aleksey Vladimirovich Batalov is a Soviet and Russian actor who has been acclaimed for his portrayal of noble and positive characters. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1976 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1989.-Biography:...
  
  
• Boris Ivanov
• Faime Jurno
• Einari Koppel
• Irina Muravyova
  Irina Muravyova
  Irina Vadimovna Muravyova is a Russian film, television and stage actress, who is most well known for her performances in Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears , Karnaval , Samaya obayatelnaya i privlekatelnaya and her work in Maly Theatre of Moscow...
  
  
• Leonid Obolensky
  Leonid Obolensky
  Leonid Leonidovich Obolensky is a Russian and Soviet actor, born on 21 January 1902 in Arzamas. Born into a family of a bank employee, he studied at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.-External links:...
  
  
• Ivan Pereverzev
  Ivan Pereverzev
  Ivan Pereverzev was a Soviet actor. He appeared in 47 films between 1940 and 1977.-Selected filmography:* It Happened in the Donbass * The Third Blow * Dream of a Cossack...
  
  
• Eugenia Pleskite
• Georgi Taratorkin
  Georgi Taratorkin
  Georgi Georgievich Taratorkin is a Soviet and Russian theatrical and cinema actor who appeared in 25 films since 1967.-Filmography:* Sofiya Perovskaya * Crime and Punishment * A Very English Murder...