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Inspector (1996)

Inspector poster
Original title
Ревизор
Directed by
Sergey Gazarov
Genre
comedy film
Country
Russia
Runtime
1h 40m
Rating
4.7 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In a small Russian town in the 1800s, a group of corrupt local officials panic when they heard a government inspector is coming to investigate them. They mistakenly believe a visiting stranger is the inspector and try to win him over with bribes and flattery.

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What happens

Inspector (Russian: Ревизор) is a 1996 Russian comedy film directed by Sergey Gazarov. It is based on the play The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol. The film takes place in 19th-century Russia in a small provincial town where corrupt officials rule the roost and which the auditor decides to visit. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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