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06/11/2011

BBC Two - Elena

A housewife takes desperate measures to solve all her family's money worries.

Drama in which a Moscow housewife and former nurse must take desperate measures to save an inheritance and solve all her family's money worries.

Moscow housewife and former nurse Elena lives in a run-down estate in the suburbs but has a close relationship with Vladimir, a rich business tycoon and former patient. Elena hopes to inherit his fortune and solve all her family's money worries, but when Vladimir suffers a shock heart attack and his estranged daughter suddenly returns, Elena feels forced to take desperate measures.

In Russian with English subtitles.

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