The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
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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...
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2 films
Cast
19 people
Andrey Myagkov
Zhenya Lukashin
Known for
Office Romance
There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
Barbara Brylska
Nadia Sheveleva
Known for
Pharaoh
Colonel Wolodyjowski
Yuriy Yakovlev
Hippolytus Georgievich
Known for
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
Kin-dza-dza!
Aleksandr Shirvindt
Pavel
Known for
The Twelve Chairs
Station for Two
Georgi Burkov
Misha
Known for
Once Upon a Time, There Lived a Dog
Cheburashka Goes to School
Aleksandr Belyavskiy
Sasha
Known for
Brigada
Demobbed
Liya Akhedzhakova
Tanya, Nadia's friend
Known for
The Garage
Office Romance
Valentina Talyzina
Nadia's friend
Known for
Three from Prostokvashino
Afonya
Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya
Zhenya's mom
Known for
Beware of the Car!
Lyubov Sokolova
Nadia's mom
Known for
Gentlemen of Fortune
Beware of the Car!
Olga Naumenko
Galya
Also in
Passengers
Ranevskaya
Gotlib Roninson
passenger at the airport
Known for
Afonya
Beware of the Car!
Eldar Ryazanov Director · Emil Braginskiy Writer Mikael Tariverdiev Composer
First release January 1, 1976 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Original title Ирония судьбы, или С легким паром!
Production
Mosfilm
Production · Studio
Russia · Russia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Ирония судьбы, или С легким паром!
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · January 1, 1976
TV
No release date listed for United States.
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