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
Odessa Film Studio
Release date
December 28, 1987 (1987-12-28)
Running time
137 min
Country
Soviet Union
Language
Russian
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]
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).
^Richard Taylor, British Film Institute The BFI companion to Eastern European and Russian cinema 2000 p.88 "and Desiat' negriat/Ten Little Niggers (1987), from the Agatha Christie story, ..."
^Andrew Horton, Michael Brashinsky The Zero Hour: Glasnost and Soviet Cinema in Transition 0691019207 p176 1992 "Stanislav Govorukhin can once again serve as a model figure. He started his glasnost period with a purely commercial adaptation of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians (Desyat' negrityat, 1987), intended to be a blockbuster."
^"И негритят не стало…". Archived from the original on 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
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