Beaty and the sleeper (Spyaschij i krasavitsa)

Elena, a young nurse is shocked to find a dead man in her bed when she returns home from her holiday. She quickly calls an ambulance and fortunately, on arrival at the hospital, the doctors discover that the stranger is alive but in a coma. His wife, the beautiful Margarita is too busy to look after her husband and so pays Elena to take care of him. As the days pass, Edgar begins to regain his strength, however, his memory is slow to recover so when he is finally discharged from hospital, Elena continues to look after him at home.
They soon fall in love and while Edgar proposes to Elena, Margarita comes to take her husband home and an inevitable argument erupts, which culminates in Edgar asking Margarita for a divorce. It is the arrival of Elena’s friend, July, however, that prompts the return of Edgar’s memory. Unbeknown to Elena, July works as a prostitute and had picked up a drunken Edgar one night at a restaurant. She had taken him back to Elena’s empty apartment, but Edgar had come to his senses just in time and asked her to leave. While Margarita finds this story amusing, Elena is extremely upset and throws both women out of her house. But things are about to get a lot worse for Elena when Edgar and July meet unexpectedly in the park…

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Vozvrativshis domoy iz poezdki, Elena obnaruzhivaet u sebya v krovati trup neznakomogo muzhchiny. V uzhase vyzyvaet militsiyu i «skoruyu». K schastyu, neznakomets okazalsya zhiv, no v komatoznom sostoyanii. Ego perevozyat v bolnitsu, gde Elena rabotaet medsestroy. I ona nachinaet ego vyhazhivat. Vskore obyavlyaetsya zhena neznakomtsa – krasavitsa Margarita, kotoraya ostavlyaet deneg glavvrachu na uhod za muzhem– sama ochen zanyata dlya poseshcheniy. Elena prodolzhaet uporno vozvrashchat Edgara k zhizni. I ey eto udaetsya. On nachinaet potihonku dvigatsya, pytaetsya govorit. No nichego o sebe ne pomnit. Cherez nekotoroe vremya Edgara vypisyvayut, i Elena zabiraet ego k sebe – prodolzhat reabilitatsiyu. Mezhdu nimi nachinayut zarozhdatsya nezhnye chuvstva. Bolee togo, Edgar delaet svoey spasitelnitse predlozhenie ruki i serdtsa. Ta otkazyvaetsya – ochen uzh nepriyatnyy predydushchiy opyt obshcheniya s muzhchinoy u nee byl. Kak-to gulyaya po parku, Elenoy i Edgar vstretili zhenshchinu, kotoraya uznala v nem druga svoego pokoynogo muzha. Ona pokazala fotografii, rasskazala, chto Edgar priehal na ego pohorony. No pamyat k nemu ne vozvrashchaetsya. Priehala Margarita zabirat muzha. Elena stala nevolnym svidetelem nekrasivoy stseny, kogda Rita obvinyala Edgara v bezdushii, hamstve, zagulah i prochee. A tot prosit o razvode. V etot moment prihodit podruga Eleny Yulya s zhaloboy na draku muzha. I tut Edgar vse vspominaet! Imenno Yulya privela ego v dom k Elene, podtsepiv v restorane (ona, okazyvaetsya, «podrabatyvala» prostitutkoy pri muzhe- kapitane dalnego plavanya!). No Edgaru vdrug stalo ploho, i Yulya sbezhala. Nad etim rasskazom Margarita posmeyalas – mol, muzh v svoem repertuare. A Elena s prezreniem poprosila vseh uyti! No istoriya ne moglo tak zakonchitsya! Gulyaya v parke, Elena vstrechaet Edgara.

+Bonus "Ostrog" (2 serii)