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The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
7.3 / 10• 1976• 3h 12m•NR• Russian
TV MovieComedyRomance
Storyline
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...
Cast & Crew
Andrey Myagkov
Zhenya Lukashin
Lead
Barbara Brylska
Nadia Sheveleva
Yuriy Yakovlev
Hippolytus Georgievich
Aleksandr Shirvindt
Pavel
Georgi Burkov
Misha
Aleksandr Belyavskiy
Sasha
Liya Akhedzhakova
Tanya, Nadia's friend
Valentina Talyzina
Nadia's friend
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Eldar Ryazanov's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
