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A Very English Murder (1974) is a Soviet TV mystery you can watch online on iFILM. Snow falls on the old Warbeck estate as a frail, impoverished lord gathers his relatives for what he suspects will be his final Christmas.
At midnight the host's son, Robert, is dead. A guest — the Czech historian Dr Bottwink — quietly takes the case apart. Everyone under the roof is tangled with everyone else by money, grudges and history, and almost no one tells the whole truth. The blizzard seals the house off, and each answer only sharpens the next question. The cast features Aleksei Batalov, Georgy Taratorkin and Irina Muravyova.
It's drawn from Cyril Hare's 1951 novel An English Murder, a model of Golden Age detective fiction. The film's pleasures are its ensemble and that chilly festive mood where comfort turns into a trap. Stream A Very English Murder (1974) online on iFILM.
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