Look for the Woman (1982)

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A body is found in a Paris notary's office, and a bumbling inspector and a talkative cleaning lady both try to find the killer.

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Year
1982
Director
Alla Surikova
Starring
Leonid Kuravlyov, Sofiko Chiaureli, Sergei Yursky, Elena Solovey, Alexander Abdulov, Leonid Yarmolnik
Genre
Comedy, Crime
Running time
2 h 26 min · 2 parts
Based on
A play by Robert Thomas
Language
Russian · no official English subtitles (YouTube machine translation only)
Studio
Mosfilm

About the film

Early one morning a dead man is found in a notary's office in Paris. Inspector Grandin begins the investigation, but the person who knows everything about everyone is the cleaning lady, Madame Cléry.

Secretaries, lovers and the notary himself all have something to hide. The case keeps changing as the suspects lie, argue and fall in love.

An elegant comic detective story with a superb Sofiko Chiaureli. Part one also has proper English subtitles on YouTube.

Did you know?

  • It is based on a play by the French writer Robert Thomas.
  • Part one of the film has official English subtitles; part two does not.
  • Sofiko Chiaureli plays the cleaning lady, Madame Cléry.

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