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Marina, once “burned” in matters of the heart, promises herself that she will never get married. And men will... only be “used.” She has a private hotel in the very center of St. Petersburg. With her exceptional beauty, Marina attracts many admirers to the hotel, without giving any of them the slightest hope of reciprocity. But one day, Konstantin Solomatin, a naval officer, captain of the first rank, and... an inveterate misogynist, stops at her hotel. He not only does not have loving feelings for our heroine, but also manages, in a fit of anger, to insult her by hinting that she leads the life of a kept woman. The wounded Marina decides to take revenge on the captain: to make him fall in love with her at all costs, and then make him suffer from unrequited love...
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Marina, once “burned” in matters of the heart, promises herself that she will never get married. And men will... only be “used.” She has a private hotel in the very center of St. Petersburg. With her exceptional beauty, Marina attracts many admirers to the hotel, without giving any of them the slightest hope of reciprocity. But one day, Konstantin Solomatin, a naval officer, captain of the first rank, and... an inveterate misogynist, stops at her hotel. He not only does not have loving feelings for our heroine, but also manages, in a fit of anger, to insult her by hinting that she leads the life of a kept woman. The wounded Marina decides to take revenge on the captain: to make him fall in love with her at all costs, and then make him suffer from unrequited love...
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Genre:Romance, Comedy, TV Movie
Written By:Aleksandr Nazarov
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Runtime:96 minutes
Studio:R Media
Cast
Olga Muzaleva
Director
Anastasiya Zavorotnyuk
Marina
Aleksandr Arsentev
Konstantin Solomatin
Andrey Sergeev
Gleb Evgenyevich Ikonin
Aleksandr Nazarov
Aleksandr Sergeevich Lemurov
Yulia Kuvarzina
Yuliya
Natalya Ryzhikh
Alla
Igor Lysov
Igor Ivanovich
Aleksandr Voevodin
Sudakov
Алексей Дубровский
Fedya
Yuriy Cherkasov
Sergey Penochkin
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