| Trap for a Lonely Man | |||||
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| Director: | Aleksey Korenev | ||||
| Screenplay: | Aleksey Korenev | ||||
| Cinematography: | Anatoly Mukasei | ||||
| Editing: | Irma Tsekavaya | ||||
| Music: | Maksim Dunayevsky | ||||
| Studio: | Creative Unification Entertainment Film | ||||
| Distributor: | State Committee for Cinematography | ||||
| Runtime: | 87 minutes | ||||
| Country: | Soviet Union | ||||
| Language: | Russian | ||||
Trap for a Lonely Man (Russian: Ловушка для одинокого мужчины|Lovushka dlya odinokogo muzhchiny) is a 1990 Soviet comedy mystery film detective film directed by . It is based on the 1960 play of the same name by Robert Thomas.[1] [2]
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.
The film was shot at the Yalta Film Studio.[3]
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".[4]