Downsizing the family (Karasi)

Colonel Carp lives with his wife, Larisa, a gynaecologist and their son, Andrey in a large house in the city. Apart from his demanding job in the military, the colonel loves to hunt and fish, which takes him away from home for long periods of time. However, it is his love of other women that is the real cause of his absences and his marital problems. With this example to follow, it is no surprise that the children are also proving unlucky in love. Daughter Veronica has fallen in love with the wrong man while son Andrey is following in his father’s footsteps and gaining a reputation as a ladies’ man.
When the colonel is told by his superiors that his family is to be relocated to a small flat, he decides the easiest solution would be to marry Andrey off. Andrey has no shortage of girlfriends but all of them refuse to marry him. However, there is one exception - Sonja, a plain girl and not Andrey’s usual type, wants to be his wife and, although Andrey is initially horrified by this prospect, his father encourages him to give her a chance. As Andrey and Sonja become better acquainted, he finds himself falling in love with her. It seems the colonel’s plan is finally coming together – until, that is, Larisa suddenly announces that she is leaving him for another man. Maybe the colonel’s new flat will be sufficient after all!

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Karasi – eto semya, prozhivayuschaya v rossijskom gorode-millionnike. Polkovnik Karas – voennyj chelovek, ego zhena Larisa – vrach-ginekolog, ih doch Veronika – aspirantka i neschastlivaya vlyublennaya, a syn Andrej – krasavets i lovelas. Glavnaya kolliziya stsenariya - neobhodimost srochnoj zhenitby Andreya, inache kvartira, kotoruyu vot-vot poluchit polkovnik dlya syna budet lish odnokomnatnoj. Andrej pytaetsya vypolnit pozhelanie roditelej, no vse ego byvshie podruzhki – dlinnonogie i krasivye - otkazyvayutsya vyhodit za nego zamuzh. Togda on znakomitsya s Sonej – krivonogoj i nekrasivoj. Devushka bez oglyadki vlyublyaetsya v Andreya. I imenno k nej, kak eto ni stranno, v finale stsenariya u nego vozniknut nezhnye chuvstva. Eto – odna iz syuzhetnyh linij. A est esche lyubov Polkovnika k ohote, rybalke i zhenschinam. Est neudovletvorennost Larisy svoej semejnoj zhiznyu – v rezultate ona taki sobiraetsya ujti ot muzha k drugomu muzhchine. I ochn slozhno ponyat, pochemu v etoj, na pervyj vzglyad, dostatochno blagopoluchnoj seme, bushuyut poistine gamletovskie strasti. Vse zavyazyvaetsya v tugoj uzel, i ne izvestno, rasputaetsya li kogda-nibud etot klubok emotsij.

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