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The Three Million Trial

192666 minSoviet Union
Comedy

Synopsis

A banker leaves a fortune in his home, and news of the money reaches people with different reasons to steal it. An elegant criminal and a much less experienced thief cross paths with the banker's wife and her lover. The resulting robbery leads to a trial where another performance may prove as valuable as the original deception.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian.
This copy runs
63:27
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Yakov Protazanov · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsYakov Protazanov

Inspirations

Protazanov adapts Umberto Notari's The Three Thieves into a comedy of overlapping schemes. The Italian setting lets the film move between financial respectability, marital deceit and the theatrical possibilities of a courtroom.

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