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The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Year's Eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes. Zhenya wakes up at Leningrad airport. Believing that he is still in Moscow he takes a taxi and goes home. The street name, building and even apartment number, the way an apartment complex looks the same and the key coincide completely - just typical Soviet-type 'economy' architecture. Imagine the surprise of Nadya when she enters her apartment and finds a man without trousers in her bed. What's more - Nadya's fiancé also finds him there...
1976 · Directed by Eldar Ryazanov · 192 min · TV Movie · Comedy · Romance · 12 frames
Crew
- Written by: Eldar Ryazanov, Emil Braginskiy
- Cinematography: Vladimir Nakhabtsev
- Edited by: Valeriya Belova
- Music: Mikael Tariverdiev
- Production design: Aleksandr Borisov
Cast
- Andrey Myagkov as Zhenya Lukashin
- Barbara Brylska as Nadia Sheveleva
- Yuriy Yakovlev as Hippolytus Georgievich
- Aleksandr Shirvindt as Pavel
- Georgi Burkov as Misha
- Aleksandr Belyavskiy as Sasha
- Liya Akhedzhakova as Tanya, Nadia's friend
- Valentina Talyzina as Nadia's friend
- Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya as Zhenya's mom
- Lyubov Sokolova as Nadia's mom
Production
- Country: Soviet Union
- Language: Russian
- Studios: Mosfilm
- Themes: new year's eve, friendship, based on novel or book, sauna, romcom, romance, drunk, comic drunk, love destiny, new year
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