The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!

1976 · 3h12 · Film

Directed by Eldar Ryazanov

Starring Andrey Myagkov, Barbara Brylska, Yuriy Yakovlev, Aleksandr Shirvindt, Georgi Burkov, Aleksandr Belyavskiy, Liya Akhedzhakova, Valentina Talyzina, Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya, Lyubov Sokolova

Ideal when you feel… Happy Romantic Angry

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...

Original title

Ирония судьбы, или С легким паром!

Original language

Russian

Country

Russia

Screenplay

Eldar Ryazanov, Emil Braginskiy

Music

Mikael Tariverdiev

Cinematography

Vladimir Nakhabtsev

Cast

Aleksandr Shirvindt, Georgi Burkov, Aleksandr Belyavskiy, Liya Akhedzhakova, Valentina Talyzina, Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya, Lyubov Sokolova

Updated August 14, 2026

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