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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
Movie Info & Details
Release Year1976
Runtime3h 12m
LanguageRussian
CertificationNR
GenresTV Movie, Comedy, Romance
Votes269
DirectorEldar Ryazanov
WritersEmil Braginskiy, Eldar Ryazanov
TypeFeature Film
Rating7.3 out of 10
Cast10 credited
Also Known AsThe Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
About 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...
Directed by Eldar Ryazanov, The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! leans on a strong ensemble — Andrey Myagkov, Barbara Brylska, Yuriy Yakovlev — to carry a story that balances spectacle with character.
The film landed with audiences for its craft and performances, and remains one of the most talked-about tv movie titles of 1976.
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