The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!

Eldar Ryazanov
1975-12-31


7.267
184 min

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

Name Character Team
Andrey Myagkov Zhenya Lukashin Unowned
Barbara Brylska Nadia Sheveleva Unowned
Yuriy Yakovlev Hippolytus Georgievich Unowned
Aleksandr Shirvindt Pavel Unowned
Georgi Burkov Misha Unowned
Aleksandr Belyavskiy Sasha Unowned
Liya Akhedzhakova Tanya, Nadia's friend Unowned
Valentina Talyzina Nadia's friend Unowned
Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya Zhenya's mom Unowned
Lyubov Sokolova Nadia's mom Unowned
Olga Naumenko Galya Unowned
Gotlib Roninson passenger at the airport Unowned
Eldar Ryazanov airplane passenger Unowned
Sergey Nikitin (uncredited) Unowned
Elena Naumkina (uncredited) Unowned
Boris Rudnev taxi driver (uncredited) Unowned
Nikolay Pogodin guest with accordion (uncredited) Unowned
Nikolai Kuznetsov neighbor Unowned