Underplayed Gems

Trap for a Lonely Man (1990)

Trap for a Lonely Man poster
Original title
Ловушка для одинокого мужчины
Directed by
Aleksey Korenev
Genre
crime comedy film, mystery film
Country
Soviet Union
Runtime
1h 27m
Rated
16+
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 16 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A man reports his wife missing to the police. Then a priest brings him a woman who says she is his wife, but he insists he has never seen her before.

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What happens

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. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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