Look for a Woman
Look for a Woman is a 1983 Soviet crime comedy television film adaptation of the play "La Perruche et le Poulet" by French writer Robert Thomas, which is, in turn, the French adaptation of "Busybody" by Jack Popplewell, directed by Alla Surikova.
Plot
An ordinary day at a Parisian notary office comes to a tragic end. Telephonist of notary Rocher, Mademoiselle Alice Postic, stays late at the office to chat with her friend on the phone and ends up finding her boss in death's throes, with a dagger in his back. After calling the police, Alice faints, but when the policeman arrives, it turns out that the corpse has disappeared! Arriving on call, the police inspector Grandin turns out to be Alice's long-time acquaintance, but now he in every possible way disavows their love, which was once between him and Mademoiselle Postic. In connection with the murder an investigation begins and the notary together with his wife are the main suspects. But everything ends in the most ridiculous way: in the midst of interrogations, the "late" Rocher arrives in the office, who spent an evening at the opera!
More details
author | Svetlana Volodina |
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director | Alla Surikova |
genre | comedy crime |
keywords | even kill murder police inspector set up young man |
musicBy | Viktor Lebedev |
productionCompany | Mosfilm |
theme | crime comedy |