The Inspector General(1949)

⁣Georgi is an illiterate stooge in a travelling medicine show who has to flee when he unwittingly reveals that their outfit is a fraud. He wanders into the small town of Brodny, where he is arrested for vagrancy. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general, whom they believe is travelling in disguise. Fearing he will discover that they have been pilfering the public purse, they make several bungled attempts on his life.