About the movie: year - 1982 / 1 hour 56 min comedy / thriller / crime / Plot of the movie "Deathtrap". : The protagonist is former popular detective writer Sidney Brule, whose time in the agony of writer's block is disrupted when Sidney reads a new play by his student, Clifford Anderson, and realizes that his student has outdone his teacher to appropriate the work. But to do so, Sydney is inspired and comes up with a cunning plan of murder. "Death Trap" - a comedy detective story by Ira Levin.