all alone.
He went and hanged himself
and then there were none."
"Ten little Indian boys
went out to dine…"
Never has Justice risen
to such a brilliant height
as it has done here.
Without jesters’ hats and mantles,
without corrupt lawyers-liars.
One-on-one - the judge
and the criminal.
One-on-one - the criminal
and the executioner.
Execution...
That’s Alpha and Omega of Truth.
And she understood that.
Vera Claythorn…
And she carried out the sentence herself.
That means I am right.
I am chosen.
I have been preparing
for this for a long time.
Hundreds of acquitted criminals,
murderers, perverts,
and as many of those, who were
innocently brought to the scaffold,
dispelled my doubts completely.
I began to collect victims,
who managed to escape
from their punishment.
To find them was not hard.
I was able to acquire incognito
Indians Island.
I sent an invitation to each guest,
according to the information
I had gathered.
They all arrived to the island
on the same day.
After the third death
the guests searched
the island and realized
that they were alone there.
According to my plan
I should shortly need an ally.
I selected Dr. Armstrong
for that part.
I asked him to feign my death.
It would perhaps rattle
the murderer.
That same evening
the show was carried out.
Nobody worried about me anymore.
I had a rendezvous with
Armstrong at 2 o’clock.
They are not suspecting anything.
Everything is going as planned.
I found something.
All day long I was watching
Lombard out the window.
Look.
Down there. The entrance to a cave.
- Where?
- Over there.
Now, when my duty is fulfilled,
and Justice, cleansed of all filth,
is triumphant,
I will take the step
that only the greatest judge
can take.
Because the true greatness
of a judge lies in his ability
to punish himself!
Screenplay and directed by
Stanislav GOVORUKHIN
Director of Photography
Gennady ENGSTREM
Production Designer
Valentin GIDULYANOV
Music by Nikolai KORNDORF
English subtitles by
Boris BULGAKOV and Zora K.
Starring
Vladimir ZELDIN
as Judge Lawrence Wargrave
Tatyana DRUBICH
as Vera Claythorne
Alexander KAIDANOVSKY
as Philip Lombard
Alexei ZHARKOV
as William Blore
Anatoly ROMASHIN
as Doctor Armstrong
Ludmila MAKSAKOVA
as Emily Brent
Mikhail GLUZSKY
as General Macarthur
Alexei ZOLOTNITSKY
as Thomas Rogers
Irina TERESHCHENKO
as Ethel Rogers
Alexander ABDULOV
as Anthony Marston
The End