''Trap for a Lonely Man'' (russian: Ловушка для одинокого мужчины, Lovushka dlya odinokogo muzhchiny) is a 1990 Soviet

comedy Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term o ...

detective film directed by . 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 A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''of souls'' of a parish. In this sense, "curate" means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy w ...

brings to him a woman who calls herself his wife, and he claims that he never saw her.

Cast

Nikolai Karachentsov Nikolai Petrovich Karachentsov (russian: Николай Петрович Караченцов, 27 October 1944 – 26 October 2018) was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor of Lenkom Theatre. Karachentsov's popularity peaked in the late 1970 ...

as Daniel Corban *

Yury Yakovlev Yury Vasilyevich Yakovlev (russian: Ю́рий Васи́льевич Я́ковлев; 25 April 1928 – 30 November 2013) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1976. Main works ...

as the Police Commissioner * Irina Shmelyova as "Elisabeth Corban" *

Veniamin Smekhov Veniamin Borisovich Smekhov (russian: Вениами́н Бори́сович Сме́хов; born August 10, 1940 in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and director. He was the winner of the Petropol Award (2000) as well as the ...

Curé A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''of souls'' of a parish. In this sense, "curate" means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy w ...

Maximin *

Innokenty Smoktunovsky Innokenty Mikhailovich Smoktunovsky (russian: Иннокентий Михайлович Смоктуновский; born ''Smoktunovich'', 28 March 19253 August 1994) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He was named a People's Artist ...

as Merluche *

Yelena Koreneva Yelena Alekseyevna Koreneva (russian: Еле́на Алексе́евна Ко́ренeва; born October 3, 1953, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress, writer, film director and screenwriter. Yelena Koreneva starred in more th ...

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

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* {{IMDb title, id=0100069 1990 comedy films 1990 crime films 1990s comedy mystery films 1990s Russian-language films Films set in France Films shot in Crimea Soviet comedy films Soviet detective films Soviet films based on plays