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The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!

7.3

1975•3h 4m

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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Photo of Andrey Myagkov

Andrey Myagkov

Zhenya Lukashin

Photo of Barbara Brylska

Barbara Brylska

Nadia Sheveleva

Photo of Yuriy Yakovlev

Yuriy Yakovlev

Hippolytus Georgievich

Photo of Aleksandr Shirvindt

Aleksandr Shirvindt

Pavel

Photo of Georgi Burkov

Georgi Burkov

Misha

Photo of Aleksandr Belyavskiy

Aleksandr Belyavskiy

Sasha

Photo of Liya Akhedzhakova

Liya Akhedzhakova

Tanya, Nadia's friend

Photo of Valentina Talyzina

Valentina Talyzina

Nadia's friend

Photo of Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya

Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya

Zhenya's mom

Photo of Lyubov Sokolova

Lyubov Sokolova

Nadia's mom

Photo of Olga Naumenko

Olga Naumenko

Galya

Photo of Gotlib Roninson

Gotlib Roninson

passenger at the airport

Photo of Eldar Ryazanov

Eldar Ryazanov

airplane passenger

Photo of Sergey Nikitin

Sergey Nikitin

(uncredited)

Photo of Elena Naumkina

Elena Naumkina

(uncredited)

Photo of Nikolay Pogodin

Nikolay Pogodin

guest with accordion (uncredited)

Photo of Nikolai Kuznetsov

Nikolai Kuznetsov

neighbor

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