A classic detective story based on one of the best-loved Golden Age crime writers, Cyril Hare, novel "An English Murder" originally published in 1951. The setting of An English Murder seems, at first, to be a very conventional one. A group of family and friends come together for Christmas at a country house, Warbeck Hall. The house is owned by Lord Warbeck, a dying and impoverished peer who wants to be among loved ones for what he thinks will be his last Christmas. The holiday decorations are up and snow is falling fast outside. The guests range from the Lord's difficult son to a visiting Czech historian. There is, of course, a faithful butler and his ambitious daughter. But when the murders begin, there is nothing at all conventional about them - or the manner of their detection...

About the labor exploits of gold miners, the old partisan Fedor Potanin and his son, the leader Stepan.

This tale of an aborted Mars expedition features spectacular "spacescapes", as well as a prescient depiction of the Earth's orbit as cluttered by manmade satellites. Sound familiar? Francis Ford Coppola liberally borrowed footage from this Russian Sci-Fi film for his 1963 directorial debut, the Roger Corman production Battle Beyond the Sun.
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