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Elena was Vladimir's nurse in a hospital, and their meeting led to marriage late in life. She comes from a modest background; he is a wealthy man, and each of them has a child from an earlier marriage. In his apartment in downtown Moscow she looks after him, while her son Sergei, who is unemployed, asks her for money to support his family in the industrial suburb. Vladimir's daughter is distant from him. When a heart attack puts Vladimir in the hospital, he decides to leave his estate to his daughter alone, with monthly payments to Elena, and once he is home he tells her so. The hopes she had for helping her son and grandson suddenly vanish.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Elena (2011)
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- Elena was the first film released through a 2015 joint venture between Zeitgeist Films and Syncopy Inc., the production company of Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas, formed to put out Blu-ray editions of Zeitgeist's prestige titles.
