Trap for a Lonely Man

Trap for a Lonely Man (Ловушка для одинокого мужчины) 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.

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

 * Nikolai Karachentsov as Daniel Corban
 * Yury Yakovlev as the Police Commissioner
 * Irina Shmelyova as "Elisabeth Corban"
 * Veniamin Smekhov as Curé Maximin
 * Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Merluche
 * Yelena Koreneva 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".