Synopsis
Zhena naprokat (Rented Wife, 2016) is a Russian romantic comedy-drama available to watch online on iFILM. Lena cruises the Volga on her own yacht and looks down on everyone left on the shore. Money, in her view, is all it takes to stand above other people.
One day the yacht's wiring fails and the repairman who shows up is Dima — a plain country fellow who treats the wealthy owner as an equal. Offended, Lena throws him off without paying. The very next day it's her own turn to go overboard. She loses her memory, but not her haughty manners, and soon has the staff of a small local hospital at their wits' end. When Dima turns up there, he calls Lena his wife and takes her home — to a run-down household and three thoroughly spoiled children. Yulia Podozyorova and Alexei Morozov lead the cast, directed by Alexander Sozonov.
The setup is a deliberate fairy tale and the show knows it: a snobbish socialite gets dropped into someone else's village life to see what's left of her. A light evening watch for fans of Russian melodrama where the heroine is humbled and the ending stays predictably warm. Stream Rented Wife (2016) online on iFILM.
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