Ishchite zhenshchinu

TV Movie
19831983
2h 32m

An incredibly talkative telephonist, deeply adoring detective films, becomes an accidental witness to murder of her boss right into the office. Alongside the police investigation, she starts... Read allAn incredibly talkative telephonist, deeply adoring detective films, becomes an accidental witness to murder of her boss right into the office. Alongside the police investigation, she starts her own amateur one.An incredibly talkative telephonist, deeply adoring detective films, becomes an accidental witness to murder of her boss right into the office. Alongside the police investigation, she starts her own amateur one.

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Director
- Alla Surikova
Writers
- Robert Thomas(play "La Perruche et le Poulet")
- Svetlana Volodina
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Yelena Ukrashchyonok in Ishchite zhenshchinu (1983)

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The story begins when Alice Postique, who had to stay late at work, discovers her boss Roche with a knife in his back. When the police detective arrives, Alice recognizes him as her old friend. —Boris Shafir <shafir@hsi.com>

detective f rated based on play

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Quotes
Alice: If I lie, I wish my tongue dries off.
Detective: That's a great idea. About a tongue.

Connections
Featured in Aleksandr Abdulov. Zhizn bez oglyadki (2021)

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10/10

Cool movie

Film is based on the French play "The Parrot and the Chicken" by Robert Thom, which, in turn, is an adaptation of the play by the British playwright Jack Poplewell "Mrs. Piper leads the investigation". The picture has all the features of a detective (no wonder the subtitle says: "The story of a murder"), but there is also a lot of comedy in it. Funny features are exaggerated in the characters ' characters, and the director's intonation shows irony in relation to the cliches of the detective genre. The intrigue of the film keeps the audience's attention, but comic touches now and then discharge the suspense, give a somewhat silly tone to what is happening on the screen.

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