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[[SequelGap In 2007 a sequel]], ''The Irony of Fate 2'' (or ''The Irony of Fate: Continuation''), was released in theaters. It picks up the story 30 years later. Zhenya and Nadya did not stay together, instead breaking up fairly soon after the events of the first film. Nadya wound up marrying Ippolit, and they eventually divorced, but not before having a daughter, also called Nadya. Zhenya also married and divorced, and also had a child, his son Kostya. The film opens with a drunken Kostya somehow winding up in the same Leningrad ([[UsefulNotes/TheCityFormerlyKnownAs now St. Petersburg]]) apartment--but unlike Zhenya's drunken odyssey, Kostya isn't really drunk, and went there for a reason. And Kostya is surprised to find not his father's old love, but her daughter, younger Nadya. And Nadya 2.0 has an Ippolit 2.0, in the person of her boyfriend, arrogant cell phone company manager Irakily.
''The Irony of Fate 2'' was directed by Timur Bekmambetov and stars, in addition to Myagkov and Brylska, Konstantin Khabensky (Kostya) and Elizaveta Boyarskaya (younger Nadya). It shares many tropes with the original, as many of the story elements are repeated--also on New Year's Eve, also taking place over a single day, also featuring a DisposableFiance, also dubbing Barbara Brylska, etc. Tropes unique to the sequel are listed at the bottom of the page.
''The Irony of Fate 2'' was directed by Timur Bekmambetov and stars, in addition to Myagkov and Brylska, Konstantin Khabensky (Kostya) and Elizaveta Boyarskaya (younger Nadya). It shares many tropes with the original, as many of the story elements are repeated--also on New Year's Eve, also taking place over a single day, also featuring a DisposableFiance, also dubbing Barbara Brylska, etc. Tropes unique to the sequel are listed at the bottom of the page.
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[[SequelGap In 2007 a sequel]], ''The Irony of Fate 2'' ''Film/TheIronyOfFate2'' (or ''The Irony of Fate: Continuation''), was released in theaters. It picks up the story 30 years later. Zhenya and Nadya did not stay together, instead breaking up fairly soon after the events of the first film. Nadya wound up marrying Ippolit, and they eventually divorced, but not before having a daughter, also called Nadya. Zhenya also married and divorced, and also had a child, his son Kostya. The film opens with a drunken Kostya somehow winding up in the same Leningrad ([[UsefulNotes/TheCityFormerlyKnownAs now St. Petersburg]]) apartment--but unlike Zhenya's drunken odyssey, Kostya isn't really drunk, and went there for a reason. And Kostya is surprised to find not his father's old love, but her daughter, younger Nadya. And Nadya 2.0 has an Ippolit 2.0, in the person of her boyfriend, arrogant cell phone company manager Irakily.
''The Irony of Fate 2'' was directed by Timur Bekmambetov and stars, in addition to Myagkov and Brylska, Konstantin Khabensky (Kostya) and Elizaveta Boyarskaya (younger Nadya). It shares many tropes with the original, as many of the story elements are repeated--also on New Year's Eve, also taking place over a single day, also featuring a DisposableFiance, also dubbing Barbara Brylska, etc. Tropes unique to the sequel are listed at the bottom of the page.
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''The Irony of Fate 2'' was directed by Timur Bekmambetov and stars, in addition to Myagkov and Brylska, Konstantin Khabensky (Kostya) and Elizaveta Boyarskaya (younger Nadya). It shares many tropes with the original, as many of the story elements are repeated--also on New Year's Eve, also taking place over a single day, also featuring a DisposableFiance, also dubbing Barbara Brylska, etc. Tropes unique to the sequel are listed at the bottom of the page.
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* FriendsRentControl: Given the notorious shortage of residential real estate in the Soviet Union that would plague it until its end, Nadya's two-room apartment is unrealistically spacious for an unmarried schoolteacher's.[[note]]In USSR, apartments were distributed centrally rather than bought, and were assigned in the order of queue. However, families, especially with children, were entitled to preferential allocation, and in any case, the living area norm was merely 7m
(about 75 sq ft) per person.[[/note]] Zhenya living in an identical apartment together with his mother displays a more realistic situation.
(about 75 sq ft) per person.[[/note]] Zhenya living in an identical apartment together with his mother displays a more realistic situation.
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* FriendsRentControl: Given the notorious shortage of residential real estate in the Soviet Union that would plague it until its end, Nadya's two-room apartment is unrealistically spacious for an unmarried schoolteacher's.[[note]]In USSR, apartments were distributed centrally rather than bought, and were assigned in the order of queue. However, families, especially with children, were entitled to preferential allocation, and in any case, the living area norm was merely 7m
7m (about 75 sq ft) per person.[[/note]] Zhenya living in an identical apartment together with his mother displays a more realistic situation.
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* MaybeEverAfter: The film ends with Nadya flying to Moscow, finding Zhenya's apartment (which after all has the same address as hers in Leningrad), and embracing him. The sequel reveals that they eventually parted ways and married other people (but Zhenya's friend Pavlik comes up with a scheme to get the lovers back together).
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* MaybeEverAfter: The film ends with Nadya flying to Moscow, finding Zhenya's apartment (which after all has the same address as hers in Leningrad), and embracing him. The sequel reveals that they eventually parted ways and married other people (but Zhenya's friend Pavlik comes up with a scheme to get the lovers back together).
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* RomanticRunnerUp: Serious, straight-laced Ippolit for Nadya and controlling, nagging Galya for Zhenya. [[spoiler: The sequel makes Ippolit's case a ZigzaggedTrope: he did marry Nadya, only for them to get divorced because he was too overbearing and controlling. Besides, she only fell back on marrying him after she got tired of waiting for Zhenya and still carries a torch for the latter 30 years later.]]
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* RomanticRunnerUp: Serious, straight-laced Ippolit for Nadya and controlling, nagging Galya for Zhenya. [[spoiler: The sequel makes Ippolit's case a ZigzaggedTrope: he did marry Nadya, only for them to get divorced because he was too overbearing and controlling. Besides, she only fell back on marrying him after she got tired of waiting for Zhenya and still carries a torch for the latter 30 years later.]]
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!!Tropes unique to ''The Irony of Fate 2'':
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Not only is Kostya not drunk, he's TheTeetotaler, because he's alcohol intolerant and a single drink will mess him up. Eventually he's forced to down a shot of vodka, and sure enough, it knocks him on his butt.
* CreatorCameo: Or maybe MythologyGag. But that's Eldar Ryazanov, again, as the guy on the plane next to a drunk Kostya.
* CuttingTheElectronicLeash: Irakliy is nagged by phone calls throughout the entire film. In the end, he gives it to a random kid as a New Year gift.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Ippolit is not fond of Irakli who is his daughter's fiance despite (or perhaps because) they are much alike when it comes to their relationships with their respective partners.
* DecemberDecemberRomance: Zhenya and Nadya renew their romance after 30 years apart.
* DeusExMachina: Kostya would have flown back to Moscow, and been out of Nadya 2.0's life forever, but bad weather cancels the flight.
* DiscreetDrinkDisposal: The officer interrogating Kostya at the police station seizes upon the New Year's moment to start downing shots. Kostya pours his into a potted plant.
* GenerationXerox: Kostya and Nadya 2.0 have repeated much of their parents' lives--Kostya is also a doctor, Nadya 2.0 is also a single woman (living in her mother's old apartment) with a fiance she has mixed feelings about. Irakly for his part takes Nadya 2.0 for granted much as Ippolit did with his Nadya.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: As he is escorting a drunken Kostya to the airport, Irakly, mystified, asks the taxi driver why Nadya picked Kostya over him. She in turn tells him that love is irrational, noting how children don't love for logical reasons, but just because.
* TheMatchmaker: This is the main difference between the first and second films. In the sequel, Kostya's arrival at the apartment is not "the irony of fate" as it was with his father, and Kostya is only pretending to be drunk. It's all a scheme cooked up by Kostya and his father's friend Pavlik to reunite Zhenya, now a lonely divorcee, with his old flame Nadya. But fate still takes a hand and complicates events when Kostya makes it to the apartment and finds not Nadya, but her daughter Nadya 2.0.
* MaybeEverAfter: For both Zhenya and Nadya, reunited after 30 years, and for Kostya and Nadya 2.0, after he wakes up and finds himself still in her apartment. [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] by Zhenya and Nadya, on the train back to Moscow, as they wonder about the fate of their kids, in the last lines of the movie.
--> '''Zhenya''': You know, I think they'll make it.\\
'''Nadya''': We'll see.
* NoDoubtTheYearsHaveChangedMe: "Have I changed a lot?", asks Nadya after seeing Zhenya for the first time in 30 years. He says she's just the same.
* ProductPlacement: The other marker of time passing, besides all the fancy effects, is all the product placement in capitalist 2007 Russia. Nadya 2.0 has Nestle candies at her New Year's table, and Irakly drives a Toyota.
* RaceForYourLove: Nadya races to the train station to catch Zhenya before his train departs for Moscow.
* RightBehindMe: Ippolit walks in on the neighbor explaining to Evgeny how Nadya settled for him.
--> '''Neighbor:''' She waited and waited for you and you never came back, so she married that guy, what's his name...
--> '''Ippolit:''' Ippolit, that's my name!
* SantaClaus: Or Grandfather Frost ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ded_Moroz Ded Moroz]]), the Russian equivalent thereof, who hands out presents on New Year's. Kostya borrows a drunken Grandfather Frost's costume to sneak back into Nadya's apartment, and she winds up dressing as Grandfather Frost's daughter, the Snow Maiden.
* SequelEscalation: The original was a 1976 TV movie made in the Soviet Union, so, pretty low-budget. The sequel is a 2007 theatrical release in high definition, with fancy graphics, freeze-frame shots, and CGI effects.
!!Tropes unique to ''The Irony of Fate 2'':
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Not only is Kostya not drunk, he's TheTeetotaler, because he's alcohol intolerant and a single drink will mess him up. Eventually he's forced to down a shot of vodka, and sure enough, it knocks him on his butt.
* CreatorCameo: Or maybe MythologyGag. But that's Eldar Ryazanov, again, as the guy on the plane next to a drunk Kostya.
* CuttingTheElectronicLeash: Irakliy is nagged by phone calls throughout the entire film. In the end, he gives it to a random kid as a New Year gift.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Ippolit is not fond of Irakli who is his daughter's fiance despite (or perhaps because) they are much alike when it comes to their relationships with their respective partners.
* DecemberDecemberRomance: Zhenya and Nadya renew their romance after 30 years apart.
* DeusExMachina: Kostya would have flown back to Moscow, and been out of Nadya 2.0's life forever, but bad weather cancels the flight.
* DiscreetDrinkDisposal: The officer interrogating Kostya at the police station seizes upon the New Year's moment to start downing shots. Kostya pours his into a potted plant.
* GenerationXerox: Kostya and Nadya 2.0 have repeated much of their parents' lives--Kostya is also a doctor, Nadya 2.0 is also a single woman (living in her mother's old apartment) with a fiance she has mixed feelings about. Irakly for his part takes Nadya 2.0 for granted much as Ippolit did with his Nadya.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: As he is escorting a drunken Kostya to the airport, Irakly, mystified, asks the taxi driver why Nadya picked Kostya over him. She in turn tells him that love is irrational, noting how children don't love for logical reasons, but just because.
* TheMatchmaker: This is the main difference between the first and second films. In the sequel, Kostya's arrival at the apartment is not "the irony of fate" as it was with his father, and Kostya is only pretending to be drunk. It's all a scheme cooked up by Kostya and his father's friend Pavlik to reunite Zhenya, now a lonely divorcee, with his old flame Nadya. But fate still takes a hand and complicates events when Kostya makes it to the apartment and finds not Nadya, but her daughter Nadya 2.0.
* MaybeEverAfter: For both Zhenya and Nadya, reunited after 30 years, and for Kostya and Nadya 2.0, after he wakes up and finds himself still in her apartment. [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] by Zhenya and Nadya, on the train back to Moscow, as they wonder about the fate of their kids, in the last lines of the movie.
--> '''Zhenya''': You know, I think they'll make it.\\
'''Nadya''': We'll see.
* NoDoubtTheYearsHaveChangedMe: "Have I changed a lot?", asks Nadya after seeing Zhenya for the first time in 30 years. He says she's just the same.
* ProductPlacement: The other marker of time passing, besides all the fancy effects, is all the product placement in capitalist 2007 Russia. Nadya 2.0 has Nestle candies at her New Year's table, and Irakly drives a Toyota.
* RaceForYourLove: Nadya races to the train station to catch Zhenya before his train departs for Moscow.
* RightBehindMe: Ippolit walks in on the neighbor explaining to Evgeny how Nadya settled for him.
--> '''Neighbor:''' She waited and waited for you and you never came back, so she married that guy, what's his name...
--> '''Ippolit:''' Ippolit, that's my name!
* SantaClaus: Or Grandfather Frost ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ded_Moroz Ded Moroz]]), the Russian equivalent thereof, who hands out presents on New Year's. Kostya borrows a drunken Grandfather Frost's costume to sneak back into Nadya's apartment, and she winds up dressing as Grandfather Frost's daughter, the Snow Maiden.
* SequelEscalation: The original was a 1976 TV movie made in the Soviet Union, so, pretty low-budget. The sequel is a 2007 theatrical release in high definition, with fancy graphics, freeze-frame shots, and CGI effects.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Zhenya tells Galya about that one time he almost got married, when he panicked at the last minute and flew off to Leningrad. This story does not help him later.
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** Besides the AnimatedCreditsOpening showing the exact same apartment building being scattered all over the communist bloc, there's the opening narration. A narrator cheerfully notes how buildings, streets, and suburban districts all over Russia look the same and have the same street names and addresses. The stairwells are even painted the same! This sets up a drunk Zhenya's confusion when he's dropped off at the right address but wrong city.
** Zhenya tells Galya about that one time he almost got married, when he panicked at the last minute and flew off to Leningrad. This story does not help him later.
** Besides the AnimatedCreditsOpening showing the exact same apartment building being scattered all over the communist bloc, there's the opening narration. A narrator cheerfully notes how buildings, streets, and suburban districts all over Russia look the same and have the same street names and addresses. The stairwells are even painted the same! This sets up a drunk Zhenya's confusion when he's dropped off at the right address but wrong city.
** Zhenya tells Galya about that one time he almost got married, when he panicked at the last minute and flew off to Leningrad. This story does not help him later.
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* FriendsRentControl: Given the notorious shortage of residential real estate in the Soviet Union that would plague it until its end, Nadya's two-room apartment is unrealistically spacious for an unmarried schoolteacher's.[[note]]In USSR, apartments were distributed centrally rather than bought, and were assigned in the order of queue. However, families, especially with children, were entitled to preferential allocation, and in any case, the living area norm was merely 7m
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* RightBehindMe: Ippolit walks in on the neighbor explaining to Evgeny how Nadya settled for him.
--> '''Neighbor:''' She waited and waited for you and you never came back, so she married that guy, what's his name...
--> '''Ippolit:''' Ippolit, that's my name!
--> '''Neighbor:''' She waited and waited for you and you never came back, so she married that guy, what's his name...
--> '''Ippolit:''' Ippolit, that's my name!
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* NeatFreak: Ippolit berates Nadya that it's a wonder she even noticed Zhenya in her messy apartment and that this would have never happened if it were his own.
