The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (1976)
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...
Director: Eldar Ryazanov
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Andrey Myagkov as Zhenya Lukashin |
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Barbara Brylska as Nadia Sheveleva |
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Yuriy Yakovlev as Hippolytus Georgievich |
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Aleksandr Shirvindt as Pavel |
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Georgi Burkov as Misha |
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Aleksandr Belyavskiy as Sasha |
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Liya Akhedzhakova as Tanya, Nadia's friend |
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Valentina Talyzina as Nadia's friend |
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Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya as Zhenya's mom |
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Lyubov Sokolova as Nadia's mom |
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Olga Naumenko as Galya |
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Gotlib Roninson as passenger at the airport |
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Eldar Ryazanov as airplane passenger |
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Elena Naumkina as barmaid at the airport (uncredited) |
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Boris Rudnev as taxi driver (uncredited) |
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Nikolay Pogodin as guest with accordion (uncredited) |
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Nikolai Kuznetsov as neighbor |
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Mikhail Bocharov as neighbor with dog |
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Aleksandr Postnikov as passerby |
| Writing | Emil Braginskiy | Writer |
| Directing | Eldar Ryazanov | Director |
| Writing | Eldar Ryazanov | Writer |
| Editing | Valeriya Belova | Editor |
| Art | Aleksandr Borisov | Production Design |
| Camera | Vladimir Nakhabtsev | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Olga Kruchinina | Costume Design |
| Sound | Mikael Tariverdiev | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Yuriy Rabinovich | Sound Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Olga Struntsova | Makeup & Hair |
| Camera | Vadim Alisov | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Sergey Armand | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Boris Kocherov | Camera Operator |
| Visual Effects | Boris Travkin | VFX Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | Valentin Glass | VFX Supervisor |
| Crew | G. Klementiev | Stunt Driver |
| Editing | Eleonora Praksina | Assistant Editor |
| Directing | Grigori Torchinsky | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | Natalia Koreneva | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Igor Petrov | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Vladimir Gorshkov | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Vladimir Batuzov | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Aleksandr Mikhalychev | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Sergey Kocheburov | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Nikolay Korobeynik | Assistant Camera |
| Art | I. Fyodorov | Set Designer |
| Lighting | Mark Vaysman | Lighting Artist |
| Writing | I. Naumova | Script Editor |
| Sound | Raisa Lukina | Music Editor |
| Sound | V. Lapisov | Music Editor |
| Writing | Aleksandr Kochetkov | Lyricist |
| Sound | Georgiy Garanyan | Conductor |
| Sound | Mikael Tariverdiev | Musician |
| Production | Efim Golynskiy | Executive Producer |
| Crew | Aleksandr Merkulov | Stunts |
| Sound | Sergey Nikitin | Vocals |
| Sound | Alla Pugacheva | Vocals |
