Mim Bim (Mim Bim, ili chuzhaya zhizn)

A young talented actor suffers an unlucky period of his life. First he loses his job in theatre. Then his wife leaves him and takes their 8 years old daughter with her. Bim (that’s how everyone calls him now) tries to earn some money as a street mime – he imitates people going by. When the life seems to lose any sense, a strange man appears in it. He offers Bim a million of dollars to go into figure of a one missing person: he should obtain the same appearance, understand the logic of his actions and thus, find out where he is now. Bim is already close to solution, but at this moment the story turns from the psychological to a criminal one. Bim finds out, that his mysterious benefactor actually is Victor, a person he is searching for, but there’s nothing mysterious in him – a few years ago he together with some company robbed a bank (for 50 million dollars!) and then he betrayed all his accessories. Naturally, Victor is not excused, and he’s been hunted. Victor simulated his own death, he changed his appearance for several times – but it didn’t help him! The hunt continued! Then he decided to expose Bim instead of himself. But he is not successful in it. And furthermore, 50 million dollars appeared at Bim’s hands. So, the unlucky period of his life ended!

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V zhizni talantlivogo molodogo aktera nachinaetsya polosa nevezeniy. Snachala on lishaetsya raboty v teatre. Potom ot nego uhodit zhena i zabiraet s soboy 8-letnyuyu dochku. Bim (tak ego nynche vse nazyvayut) pytaetsya zarabotat deneg v kachestve ploshchadnogo mima – kopiruet prohodyashchih mimo lyudey. I v tot moment, kogda zhizn, kazalos by, utratila vsyakiy smysl, v ney poyavlyaetsya zagadochnyy chelovek i predlagaet Bimu za million dollarov postepenno vzhitsya v obraz odnogo propavshego bez vesti : t.e., stat pohozhim na nego vneshne, ponyat logiku ego postupkov i, takim obrazom, vyyasnit, gde tot nahoditsya. Bim uzhe blizok k razgadke tayny, no v etot moment istoriya iz psihologicheskoy prevrashchaetsya v kriminalnuyu. Bim vyyasnyaet, chto ego tainstvennyy blagodetel i est razyskivaemyy im Viktor, no nichego osobo tainstvennogo v nem net –neskolko let nazad vmeste s nebolshoy gruppoy lyudey on ograbil bank ( na 50 mln.$!), a zatem sdal vseh svoih podelnikov. Estestvenno, emu etogo ne prostili, i na Viktora nachalas ohota. On instseniroval svoyu smert, neskolko raz menyal vneshnost – ne pomogalo! Ohota prodolzhalas! Togda Viktor reshil podstavit vmesto sebya Bima. Pravda, eto emu ne udalos! Bolee togo, summa v 50 mln. $ okazalas v rukah mima Bima. Tak chto polosa neudach v ego zhizni zavershilas!