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 detective film directed by Aleksey Korenev. It is based on the 1960 play of the same name by Robert Thomas.[1][2]

Trap for a Lonely Man
RussianЛовушка для одинокого мужчины
Directed byAleksey Korenev
Screenplay byAleksey Korenev
Based onTrap for a Lonely Man
by Robert Thomas
Starring
CinematographyAnatoly Mukasei
Edited byIrma Tsekavaya
Music byMaksim Dunayevsky
Production
company
Creative Unification Entertainment Film
Distributed byState Committee for Cinematography
Release date
  • 19 December 1990 (1990-12-19)
Running time
87 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

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

Production

The film was shot at the Yalta Film Studio.[3]

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".[4]

References

  1. "Пять лучших киноролей Юрия Яковлева". Vesti (in Russian). 30 November 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  2. Naborshchikova, Svetlana (14 August 2018). "Ловушка для зрителя". Izvestia (in Russian). Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  3. Milina, Lyudmila (29 May 2021). "Киногостиная принимает зрителей". Krymskaya Pravda (in Russian). Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  4. Kolbovsky, Aleksandr (1991). "Ловушка для одинокого мужчины". Sputnik kinozritelya (in Russian). No. 3. p. 8. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
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