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Trap for a Lonely Man


Trap for a Lonely Man


Trap for a Lonely Man (Russian: Ловушка для одинокого мужчины, romanized: Lovushka dlya odinokogo muzhchiny) is a 1990 Soviet comedy mystery film detective film directed by Aleksey Korenev. It is based on the 1960 play of the same name by Robert Thomas.

Plot

The film tells about a man whose wife was missing, which forced him to turn to the police. Suddenly, a local curé brings to him a woman who calls herself his wife, and he claims that he never saw her.

Cast

  • Nikolai Karachentsov as Daniel Corban
  • Yury Yakovlev as the Police Commissioner
  • Irina Shmelyova as "Elisabeth Corban"
  • Veniamin Smekhov as Curé Maximin
  • Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Merluche
  • Yelena Koreneva as Yvonne Berton
  • Sergey Migitsko as Jean

Production

The film was shot at the Yalta Film Studio.

Reception

Aleksandr Kolbovsky of Sputnik kinozritelya praised the actors' performances, but still found them generally lacking a French style, and concluded that the film is "unpretentious, but entertaining and even at times fascinating".

References

External links

  • Trap for a Lonely Man at IMDb

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