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The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (1976)
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Original name: Ирония судьбы, или С легким паром!
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 192 min.
Story:
A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Years 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...
Style:
light, feel good, humorous, funny, talky, semi serious, witty, romantic comedy
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
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Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
soviet union, siberia, moscow russia, st. petersburg russia, ussr, russia, russian
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