
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
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12/31/1975Runtime
184 minsOverview
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 gleefully absurd Soviet romantic comedy built on mistaken identity and chance, a drunken man wakes up in a stranger's bed on New Year's Eve and everything spirals from there. It's the kind of movie that knows its central premise is ridiculous and leans into it with warmth and genuine charm.
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Andrey Myagkov
Zhenya Lukashin

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

Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya
Zhenya's mom

Lyubov Sokolova
Nadia's mom

Olga Naumenko
Galya

Gotlib Roninson
passenger at the airport
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