The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
Ирония судьбы, или С легким паром!
TV Movie
Comedy
Romance
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...
1976-01-01
ru
Cast
Director
Eldar Ryazanov
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
Olga Naumenko as Galya
Gotlib Roninson as passenger at the airport
Eldar Ryazanov as airplane passenger
Elena Naumkina as barmaid at the airport (uncredited)
Nikolay Pogodin as guest with accordion (uncredited)
Nikolai Kuznetsov as neighbor
Mikhail Bocharov as neighbor with dog