The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
Directed by Eldar Ryazanov
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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...Read moreLess
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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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...
Watch trailerCast & crew
Andrey MyagkovZhenya Lukashin
Barbara BrylskaNadia Sheveleva
Yuriy YakovlevHippolytus Georgievich
Aleksandr ShirvindtPavel
Georgi BurkovMisha
Aleksandr BelyavskiySasha
Liya AkhedzhakovaTanya, Nadia's friend
Valentina TalyzinaNadia's friend
Lyubov DobrzhanskayaZhenya's mom
Lyubov SokolovaNadia's mom
Olga NaumenkoGalya
Gotlib Roninsonpassenger at the airportExplore the crew
- Director
- Eldar Ryazanov
- Writer
- Emil Braginskiy
- Writer
- Eldar Ryazanov
- Director of Photography
- Vladimir Nakhabtsev
- Editor
- Valeriya Belova
- Original Music Composer
- Mikael Tariverdiev