Don't Rush into Love (Ne toropi lyubov!)

Thirty years old and seriously overweight, Katya is distraught to discover that her boyfriend of six years has a wife (and two lovers on the side!) and that she has therefore been waiting in vain all this time for him to propose to her. Her friends suggest that she look for an eligible, rich foreigner on the internet, at the same time persuading her to lose weight, buy some nice clothes and make more of an effort with her appearance. This soon attracts the attentions of Ilya, a new colleague at work. They quickly become friends and, while Ilya would like to take their relationship further, Katya’s friends think she could do better and convince her to set up a date with Lion, a successful American businessman, whom she met on the internet and who has just arrived in Moscow on a business trip.

She initially introduces Lion as a friend, however, unbeknown to Katya, one of her friends has been making spiteful and unkind remarks about her to Ilya, and when, therefore, he starts to behave distantly towards her, a hurt Katya agrees to marry Lion on the rebound. Lion soon reveals his true colours – he is greedy, overbearing and unkind, but when he decides to return to America, Katya feels she has no choice but to go with him.

Just before she is about to board the plane, Katya is stopped by a customs official whose attention has been caught by her necklace – a birthday present from Ilya, which turns out to be a priceless piece of gold jewellery filled with rubies and diamonds! Realising Ilya’s true feelings for her, Katya returns home breathing a sigh of relief at her lucky escape. She can now leave Lion and marry Ilya, who had always been her true love anyway, and who has just been promoted to head of the company!

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Liricheskaya komediya o tom, kak horosho, esli brak po lyubvi stanovitsya esche i brakom po raschetu!

U pyshnenkoj tridtsatiletnej Kati – tragediya. Lyubimyj chelovek okazalsya obyknovennym babnikom (u nego esche dve lyubovnitsy i odna zhena!) 6 let, v techenie kotoryh Katya ozhidala zamuzhestva, poshli nasmarku. Podrugi reshayut ej pomoch – najti po Internetu vygodnogo zheniha, i obyazatelno za rubezhom. Pri etom oni zastavlyayut Katyu zanyatsya svoej vneshnostyu - pohudet i effektno odetsya. V eto zhe vremya «potentsialnaya nevesta» znakomitsya s novym sotrudnikom Ilej, i oni ochen bystro stanovyatsya druzyami. Bolee togo, vskore mezhdu nimi voznikayut nezhnye otnosheniya. Pravda, podrugi schitayut, chto prostoj brend-menedzher – Kate vovse ne para. A tut on esche i ischezaet kuda-to na desyat dnej. V etot samyj moment v Moskvu priezzhaet internet-zhenih Lajon - amerikanets, krasavets, biznesmen. Snachala Katya lish druzheski obschaetsya s nim. No, vstretiv, nakonets, Ilyu i buduchi potryasennoj ego holodnostyu (kak okazhetsya pozzhe, Katyu ogovorila ee sotrudnitsa-sterva!), vyhodit zamuzh za Lajona. Kotoryj srazu zhe menyaetsya – prevraschaetsya v hama, krohobora i zhloba (standartnyj inostrannyj zhenih!) Uvy, delat nechego, molodozheny sobirayutsya v Ameriku. No... Pri prohozhdenii tamozhni, Katyu zaderzhivayut. Okazyvaetsya, kole, kotoroe podaril ej na den rozhdeniya Ilya, vydav za horoshuyu bizhuteriyu, ochen dazhe dragotsennoe – zoloto, rubiny, brillianty! Oblegchenno vzdohnuv (mozhno ne ehat za «postylym» muzhem!), Katya vozvraschaetsya v svoj ofis i nahodit Ilyu v «kresle bolshogo nachalnika». Lyubov torzhestvuet! «Nash» oligarh – luchshe «ih» biznesmena. Hotya nikto i ne somnevalsya!

+Bonus "Svoy chelovek" (2 serii)