Shvedskaya Spichka (1954)

Name: Shvedskaya Spichka
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Released: 2019-12-30T11:20:40+01:00
Rating: 3.5
Cast: Aleksey Gribov, Andrei Popov, Mikhail Yanshin

Comedy | 52 minutes

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Genre: Comedy / Mystery

Duration: 52 minuten

Alternative titles: Шведская спичка / The Safety Match

Country: Soviet Union

Directed by: Konstantin Yudin

Stars: Andrei Popov and Mikhail Yanshin

IMDb score: 7,5 (134)

Releasedate: 10 August 1954

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Shvedskaya Spichka plot

'The Swedish Match' is a parody of a detective story and describes a provincial town in Russia, around the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A young inspector is confronted with a murder drama that revives the entire virtually sleepy town. His research has certain superfluous elements, because everyone knows everyone in the small town. In this research, the provincial mentality of the inhabitants as well as the Russian bureaucracy come to the fore. In the course of the investigation, the inspector threatens to lose his only chance at the real job due to unforeseen circumstances…