Trap for a Lonely Man
Trap for a Lonely Man () is a 1990 Soviet comedy detective film directed by . 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".

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1990 comedy films
1990 crime films
1990s comedy mystery films
1990s Russian-language films
Films set in France
Films shot in Crimea
Soviet comedy films
Soviet detective films
Soviet films based on plays