The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!

Movie·1976·3h 12m

The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!

Country

Soviet Union

Language

Russian

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The Story

Original title: Ирония судьбы, или С легким паром!

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...

Written By

Emil Braginskiy

Producer

Efim Golynskiy

Cinematography

Vladimir Nakhabtsev

Music

Mikael Tariverdiev

Editor

Valeriya Belova

Themes

new year's evefriendshipbased on novel or booksaunaromcomromancedrunkcomic drunklove destinynew year

Production House

Mosfilm

Audience Score

73%

264 votes

Skip8%
Timepass20%
Go for it39%
Perfection33%

Where to watch

Region: RU

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Cast

Andrey Myagkov

Andrey Myagkov

Zhenya Lukashin

Barbara Brylska

Barbara Brylska

Nadia Sheveleva

Yuriy Yakovlev

Yuriy Yakovlev

Hippolytus Georgievich

Aleksandr Shirvindt

Aleksandr Shirvindt

Pavel

Georgi Burkov

Georgi Burkov

Misha

Aleksandr Belyavskiy

Aleksandr Belyavskiy

Sasha

Liya Akhedzhakova

Liya Akhedzhakova

Tanya, Nadia's friend

Valentina Talyzina

Valentina Talyzina

Nadia's friend

Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya

Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya

Zhenya's mom

Lyubov Sokolova

Lyubov Sokolova

Nadia's mom

Olga Naumenko

Olga Naumenko

Galya

Gotlib Roninson

Gotlib Roninson

passenger at the airport

Eldar Ryazanov

Eldar Ryazanov

airplane passenger

Elena Naumkina

Elena Naumkina

barmaid at the airport (uncredited)

Boris Rudnev

taxi driver (uncredited)

Nikolay Pogodin

Nikolay Pogodin

guest with accordion (uncredited)

Nikolai Kuznetsov

Nikolai Kuznetsov

neighbor

Mikhail Bocharov

Mikhail Bocharov

neighbor with dog

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Crew

Emil Braginskiy

Emil Braginskiy

Writer

Eldar Ryazanov

Eldar Ryazanov

Director, Writer

Valeriya Belova

Valeriya Belova

Editor

Vladimir Nakhabtsev

Vladimir Nakhabtsev

Director of Photography

Mikael Tariverdiev

Mikael Tariverdiev

Original Music Composer

Efim Golynskiy

Executive Producer

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