“An absolutely untypical story, which could only occur on the New Year night” – is the subtitle of Eldar Ryazanov’s most popular film. This is a lyrical comedy about four friends going to the sauna in Moscow, as their annual tradition was, and having so much “heat” that Andrey Myagkov’s character ends up at the same apartment as his, in the same street, with the same furniture, only in Leningrad, where he unexpectedly interferes with the life of its lady-owner (Barbara Brylska)…

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The Irony of Fate, or "Enjoy Your Bath!" (1975)

Foreign/Romance/Comedy · 3h 5m · 1/1/1976

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“An absolutely untypical story, which could only occur on the New Year night” – is the subtitle of Eldar Ryazanov’s most popular film. This is a lyrical comedy about four friends going to the sauna in Moscow, as their annual tradition was, and having so much “heat” that Andrey Myagkov’s character ends up at the same apartment as his, in the same street, with the same furniture, only in Leningrad, where he unexpectedly interferes with the life of its lady-owner (Barbara Brylska)…

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Cast
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Andrei Miagkov

Zhenya
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Barbara Brylska

Nadya
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Yuri Yakovlev

Ippolit
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Aleksandr Shirvindt

Pavel, Zhenya's friend
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Georgi Burkov

Misha, Zhenya's friend
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Liya Akhedzhakova

Nadya's friend
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Aleksandr Belyavsky

Sasha, Zhenya's friend
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Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya

Zhenya's mother
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Olga Naumenko

Galya
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Gotlib Roninson

Zhenya's neighbour at the airport
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Eldar Ryazanov

Zhenya's neighbour in the plane
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Lyubov Sokolova

Nadya's mother
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Valentina Talyzina

Nadya's friend and Nadya's voice
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Sergei Nikitin

Songs (singing voice) (uncredited)
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Alla Pugacheva

Nadya's voice (songs) (singing voice) (uncredited)
Crew
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Eldar Ryazanov

Director
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The Irony of Fate, or "Enjoy Your Bath!"

(DVD)

12/10/2002

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