Unfinnished Dinner (1979)

2.0/10 123 min Comedy Mystery Crime

Overview

In one of the prestigious restaurants during banquet speech a large company's director Palmgren is killed in front of dozen guests . Case is lead by Criminal Investigation Officer Pierre Monson with his assistants. Suspect can be easily intercepted if only miserably lazy police officers Kvant and Kristiansson instead of catching criminal would not argue with father of little 3 years old boy who yelled: "Police, police, mashed potatoes" when they ate hot dogs. Help comes from capital in form of the famous Commissioner Martin Beck, who discovers that murdered industrialist was involved in illegal activities and had many enemies. The case is linked as well with government's "higher ends".

Cast

Uldis Vazdiks

Per Månsson

Romualds Ancans

Martin Beck

Janis Paukstello

Benny Skacke

Pauls Butkevics

Backlund

Boļeslavs Ružs

Karl Kristiansson

Voldemar Lobinsh

Kurt Kvant

Bertulis Pizics

Paulsson

Arturs Dimiters

Viktor Palmgren

Lilita Bērziņa

Miss Grengren

Ēvalds Valters

Arnold, Helena's father

Akvelina Livmane

Åsa Thorell

Mirdza Martinsone

Sara, Bruberg's secretary

Regīna Razuma

Charlotte Palmgren

Ingrīda Andriņa

Baroness

Arnolds Liniņš

Bruberg

Ivars Kalnins

Mats Linder

Arijs Geikins

Edwardsson

Aleksandrs Leimanis

Inspector Mogensen

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