Desyat Negrityat

Desyat Negrityat Ten Little Negroes
Film poster for Desyat Negrityat
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	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).