В конце оказывается, что он невиновен, а настоящая виновная — совсем другая женщина.

В конце literally means at the end. In context, it often corresponds to English in the end or at the end depending on style.

• в конце фильма = at the end of the film
• в конце оказывается = in the end / at the end it turns out

Russian uses в + prepositional here because it refers to being within a point or section near the end of something.

This is very common in Russian. The present tense can be used in narrative style to make events feel vivid and immediate. So оказывается literally looks like it turns out / it is turning out, but in storytelling it often means:

• it turns out
• we find out
• it is revealed

This is similar to the historical present in English, as in: So at the end, it turns out he’s innocent...

Here оказывается means it turns out or it is revealed.

The verb оказываться / оказаться can mean:

• to turn out
• to prove to be
• to end up being

In this sentence, it introduces new information discovered later:

• В конце оказывается, что... = At the end, it turns out that...

Because что introduces a subordinate clause.

The structure is:

• оказывается, что он невиновен
• literally: it turns out, that he is innocent

In Russian, clauses introduced by что are normally separated by a comma.

Невиновен is the short form adjective, and short-form adjectives are often used as the predicate after to be is implied.

So:

• он невиновен = he is innocent

By contrast:

• невиновный человек = an innocent person

So the difference is roughly:

• невиновен = predicate form, used in statements like he is innocent
• невиновный = attributive form, used before a noun like an innocent man

Yes. Both can mean not guilty / innocent, but невиновен often sounds a bit more formal, judicial, or objective.

Compare:

• Он невиновен. = He is innocent / not guilty.
  More formal, especially in legal or serious contexts.
• Он не виноват. = It’s not his fault / he isn’t to blame.
  More common in everyday speech and can refer to blame, not only legal guilt.

In this sentence, невиновен fits well because the sentence sounds like a reveal about who the guilty person really is.

Here виновная is a full adjective used substantively, meaning it stands in place of a noun.

So виновная literally means something like:

• the guilty one (feminine)
• understood as the guilty woman / the guilty person

Because the sentence later says другая женщина, the feminine form makes sense:

• настоящая виновная = the real guilty one
• meaning: the real culprit is a different woman

Because they refer to different people.

• он невиновен: он is masculine, so the adjective is masculine short form невиновен
• настоящая виновная: this refers to a woman, so the adjective is feminine виновная

Russian adjectives agree with the noun or pronoun they describe in gender (and also number and case).

А is often used to mark contrast or a shift from one idea to another.

Here the contrast is:

• he is innocent
• the real guilty person is someone else

So а works very naturally.

Roughly:

• и = and
• но = but
• а = and/but, with a contrast or comparison

In this sentence, а is perfect because it sets up a contrast between the man and the real culprit.

The dash marks an omitted copula—in other words, Russian leaves out the present-tense verb to be.

So the full sense is:

• настоящая виновная — совсем другая женщина
• literally: the real guilty one — a completely different woman
• natural English: the real culprit is a completely different woman

Russian often uses a dash in sentences like X — Y when both parts are nouns or noun-like expressions and the verb is is omitted.

Here совсем intensifies другая.

So:

• совсем другая женщина = a completely different woman

It emphasizes that the real guilty person is not the person we were led to suspect, but someone entirely different.

Depending on context, совсем can mean:

• completely
• entirely
• quite
• sometimes at all in negative expressions

Here the best sense is completely.

Because this part is in the nominative case. It functions as the predicate noun in an equational sentence:

• настоящая виновная — совсем другая женщина

In Russian, when one noun expression is identified as another in the present tense, both are often in the nominative:

• Он врач. = He is a doctor.
• Это проблема. = This is a problem.
• Настоящая виновная — другая женщина. = The real guilty one is another woman.

Here настоящая means real, actual, or true.

So:

• настоящая виновная = the real guilty one
• not just someone who seems guilty, but the person who actually is guilty

Russian настоящий / настоящая / настоящее can mean:

• real
• genuine
• true
• sometimes current/present, depending on context

In this sentence, real/actual is the correct meaning.

Yes, Russian word order is flexible, but the current order sounds natural and dramatic.

The sentence begins with:

• В конце оказывается... This sets the scene first: at the end, it turns out...

Then:

• что он невиновен This gives the first revelation.

Then:

• а настоящая виновная — совсем другая женщина This delivers the contrast and the twist.

A different order is possible, but this version is very natural for storytelling because it builds suspense and then gives the reveal.