Desyat Negrityat
1987 film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Desyat Negrityat?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
Desyat Negrityat (Russian: Десять негритят, 'Ten Little Negroes') is a 1987 Soviet mystery thriller film adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1939 novel of the same name, now known as And Then There Were None. It was directed by Stanislav Govorukhin, who also penned the script.[1][2]
Desyat Negrityat Ten Little Negroes | |
---|---|
Directed by | Stanislav Govorukhin |
Screenplay by | Stanislav Govorukhin |
Based on | And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie |
Starring | Vladimir Zeldin Tatyana Drubich Alexander Kaidanovsky Aleksei Zharkov Anatoli Romashin Lyudmila Maksakova |
Cinematography | Gennadi Engstrem |
Edited by | Valentina Olejnik |
Music by | Nikolai Korndorf |
Production company | |
Release date |
|
Running time | 137 min |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
This version was, upon its release, unique in that virtually no part of the novel is altered (although a sexual relationship between Vera and Lombard is introduced, and the latter's revolver is changed into a small automatic pistol). Unlike the previous Hollywood/British adaptations of the story, none of the characters or their respective crimes are altered in any way and the film concludes with the grim finale from Agatha Christie's original novel, rather than the upbeat ending from the 1943 stage version that most other adaptations chose to follow.[3] The Soviet adaptation is a bit more fanciful in that the murderer expounds at some length, in solitude, about their methodology and the critical twist (aloud instead of on paper as in the novel).