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* StraightManAndWiseGuy: An antagonistic case with Ippolit and Zhenya, most clearly shown while the two are arguing after Nadya kicked them both out. Ippolit derides Zhenya as a happy-go-lucky airhead whose kind ruins everything good in he world, while Zhenya thinks Ippolit is a bore who stifles everyone around him with his narrow-minded behavior.
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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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* 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.
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* NotWhereTheyThought: The plot of the movie kicks off when Zhenya, drunk to the point of unconsciousness, is put on a plane from Moscow to Leningrad by his equally drunk friends (one of them had in fact planned to go to Leningrad that night). By coincidence, there is an apartment with the same address as Zhenya's in Leningrad, so, as he has slept through the flight and doesn't remember it, it takes him quite a while to learn he isn't at home anymore.
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** The irony of their situation is highlighted when Nadya goes for a walk through the iconic imperial era architecture in Leningrad. When Zhenya manages to gets home Moscow’s St. Basil’s cathedral is visible from his building’s porch.
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* DiegeticMusical: Both Zhenya and Nadya enjoy singing and playing the guitar, and are often asked to do so. It even includes a moment of Hypocritical Humor, when Nadya's friends ask her to sing and Zhenya refuses to listen, saying he doesn't like amateur performances.
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''The Irony of Fate, or, Enjoy Your Banya!'' (Ирония судьбы, или С лёгким паром!) is a Soviet romantic comedy television movie from 1976. It was directed by Creator/EldarRyazanov and starred Andrey Myagkov and Barbara Brylska (''Film/{{Pharaoh}}''). You can watch ''The Irony of Fate'' [[https://russianfilmhub.com/movies/the-irony-of-fate-or-enjoy-your-bath-1975/ here]].
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''The Irony of Fate, or, Enjoy Your Banya!'' (Ирония судьбы, или С лёгким паром!) is a Soviet romantic comedy television movie from 1976. It was directed by Creator/EldarRyazanov and starred Andrey Myagkov and Barbara Brylska (''Film/{{Pharaoh}}''). You can watch ''The Irony of Fate'' [[https://russianfilmhub.com/movies/the-irony-of-fate-or-enjoy-your-bath-1975/ here]].\n\n
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* NonNudeBathing: Ippolit's last visit to the apartment finds him drunk, after having [[DrowningMySorrows drowned his sorrows]]. He goes into Nadya's shower with his clothes still on.
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''The Irony of Fate, or, Enjoy Your Banya!'' (Ирония судьбы, или С лёгким паром!) is a Soviet romantic comedy television movie from 1976. It was directed by Creator/EldarRyazanov and starred Andrey Myagkov and Barbara Brylska (''Film/{{Pharaoh}}'').
(''Film/{{Pharaoh}}''). You can watch ''The Irony of Fate'' [[https://russianfilmhub.com/movies/the-irony-of-fate-or-enjoy-your-bath-1975/ here]].
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* 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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* 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.effects.
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''The Irony of Fate, or, Enjoy Your Banya!'' (Ирония судьбы, или С лёгким паром!) is a Soviet romantic comedy television movie from 1976. It was directed by Eldar Ryazanov Creator/EldarRyazanov and starred Andrey Myagkov and Barbara Brylska (''Film/{{Pharaoh}}'').
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''The Irony of Fate, or, Enjoy Your Banya!'' (Ирония судьбы, или С лёгким паром!) is a Soviet romantic comedy television movie from 1976. It was directed by Eldar Ryazanov and starred Andrey Myagkov and Barbara Brylska.
Brylska (''Film/{{Pharaoh}}'').
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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 ([[Main/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.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The whole film takes place over less than a day, from the afternoon of New Year's Eve to the late morning of New Year's Day.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The whole film takes place over less a little more than a day, 24 hours, from the afternoon of New Year's Eve to the late morning evening of New Year's Day.
* TheMistress: Nadya rather shamefacedly explains that she was this for many years to a married man, which is why she still isn't married at 34.
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* UglyGuyHotWife: Perhaps justified as Zhenya is a professional man, a surgeon, which might explain how he could land a young, hot woman like Galya despite being balding and nearly forty.
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* UglyGuyHotWife: Perhaps justified as Zhenya is a professional man, a surgeon, which might explain how he could land a young, hot woman like Galya despite being balding balding, at least a decade older, and nearly forty.unattractive.
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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, 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, 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.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, 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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* 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.
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''The Irony of Fate'' aired on Soviet television in two parts on Jan. 1, 1976. It was a massive hit, so successful that it was released in theaters later that year. It has since become a Russian holiday tradition, airing on New Year's Eve every year since. A sequel, ''The Irony of Fate 2'' (or ''The Irony of Fate: Continuation''), was released in 2007, picking up the story thirty years later.
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''The Irony of Fate'' aired on Soviet television in two parts on Jan. 1, 1976. It was a massive hit, so successful that it was released in theaters later that year. It has since become a Russian holiday tradition, airing on New Year's Eve every year since. A
In 2007 a sequel, ''The Irony of Fate 2'' (or ''The Irony of Fate: Continuation''), was released in2007, picking theaters. It picks up the story thirty 30 years later.
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 son, Kostya. The film opens with a drunken Kostya somehow winding up in the same Leningrad ([[Main/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 businessman Irakily.
''The Irony of Fate 2'' was directed by Timur Bekmambetov. It shares many tropes with the original, as many of the story elements are repeated--also on New Year's, 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. It shares many tropes with the original, as many of the story elements are repeated--also on New Year's, 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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* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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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* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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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* ZipMeUp: An angry Nadya is about to stalk out of the apartment, but not before asking demanding that Zhenya help zip up her boots. He's pretty clearly turned on by this.
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** All the interruptions that happen when Nadya and Zhenya are making emotional connections--the phone rings, Ippolit barges in, Nadya's friends drop by, Nadya's mother drops by, total strangers knock on the door looking for a place to party.
** Zhenya's repeated efforts to explain to multiple people how he wound up in a strange woman's apartment ''in a different city'' for New Year's.
** All the interruptions that happen when Nadya and Zhenya are making emotional connections--the phone rings, Ippolit barges in, Nadya's friends drop by, Nadya's mother drops by, total strangers knock on the door looking for a place to party.
** Zhenya's repeated efforts to explain to multiple people how he wound up in a strange woman's apartment ''in a different city'' for New Year's.
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* EitherOrTitleEitherOrTitle: The literal translation is ''The Irony of Fate, or With Good Steam!''
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* CreatorCameo: Director Eldar Ryazanov plays the man sitting next to Zhenya in the plane.
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''The Irony of Fate, or, Enjoy Your Banya!'' (Ирония судьбы, или С лёгким паром!) is a Soviet romantic comedy television movie from 1976. It was directed by Eldar Ryazanov and starred Andrey Myagkov and Barbara Brylska.
Zhenya (Myagkov) is a surgeon in Moscow on New Year's Eve. He is preparing to greet the new year with his sexy young girlfriend Galya, who has just agreed to marry him. Zhenya's friend Pavlik comes by the apartment to pick up Zhenya and take him to the banya (a public bathhouse) for their traditional New Year's Eve bath. Zhenya and Pavlik meet their other two friends at the bath, and the foursome starts toasting Zhenya's engagement with vodka shots. Pavlik has to catch a plane to Leningrad, so the party moves to the airport, where both Zhenya and Pavlik pass out drunk while they wait for the plane. Zhenya's other two friends, themselves quite drunk, can't remember who was supposed to get on the plane, and they wind up putting Zhenya onboard by mistake.
Zhenya sleeps through the whole flight to Leningrad and then stumbles his way to a taxi. Still very drunk, he gives the taxi driver his address. Due to the uniformity of Soviet urban planning, the street names and addresses are the same, as are most of the buildings that a half-conscious Zhenya passes by while riding in the taxi. He is dropped off by the taxi driver at the Leningrad address that matches his Moscow address. Soviet architecture is so uniform that his key even opens the apartment that matches his Moscow apartment. Zhenya doesn't notice he's in the wrong apartment any more than he noticed he was in the wrong city, instead flopping down on the bed to sleep off his liquor. The situation grows more complicated when the person who actually lives in the apartment, a language and literature teacher named Nadya (Brylska), arrives home to find a strange man asleep in her bed. It grows still more complicated when Nadya's fiance Ippolit arrives to see in the New Year with Nadya and finds a strange man in her apartment.
''The Irony of Fate'' aired on Soviet television in two parts on Jan. 1, 1976. It was a massive hit, so successful that it was released in theaters later that year. It has since become a Russian holiday tradition, airing on New Year's Eve every year since. A sequel, ''The Irony of Fate 2'' (or ''The Irony of Fate: Continuation''), was released in 2007, picking up the story thirty years later.
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!!Tropes:
* AnimatedCreditsOpening: The film starts out with a cartoon in which an ambitious, creative architect sees his creative design turned into a boring rectangular apartment building by Soviet authorities, who then build exact copies of that same building everywhere. This becomes plot-relevant later, when the sameness of all the drab apartment buildings causes an inebriated Zhenya to stagger into the wrong apartment building in the wrong city.
* CutAndPasteSuburb: The apartment blocks of 1970s Soviet suburbia, so much so that a drunk Zhenya can't tell the difference between the Moscow neighborhood where he actually lives and the Leningrad neighborhood where he's dropped off.
* DisposableFiance: Galya and Ippolit, as Zhenya and Nadya fall in love over the course of a single night.
* EitherOrTitle
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The whole film takes place over less than a day, from the afternoon of New Year's Eve to the late morning of New Year's Day.
* FieryRedhead: Galya has red hair and the temper to match, and she is not having it when Zhenya calls her from Leningrad with a most unlikely story of why he stood her up.
* HangoverSensitivity: Zhenya is not at his best when an agitated Nadya yanks him out of her bed and demands that he leave.
* 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).
* NewYearHasCome: New Year's, of course, being the most important holiday on the Soviet/Russian calendar. Zhenya and Nadya wind up celebrating together after he's stuck in Leningrad (he doesn't have any money for the return flight) and Ippolit storms out in a jealous fit.
* NonSingingVoice: When Zhenya and Nadya take turns playing her guitar and singing folk songs, other actors are providing the singing.
* SameLanguageDub: Barbara Brylska was Polish. All of her dialogue was overdubbed by Valentina Talyzina, who also appears as one of Nadya's two friends that drop in.
* ShutUpKiss: The second time that Nadya's friends barge in, a big argument ensues, which Zhenya ends by planting one on Nadya's lips.
* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: Zhenya and Ippolit have one when a furious Nadya throws both of them out of her apartment.
* VodkaDrunkenski: Zhenya isn't really a drinker, which made it that much easier for him to get completely tanked with his friends at the banya.
Zhenya (Myagkov) is a surgeon in Moscow on New Year's Eve. He is preparing to greet the new year with his sexy young girlfriend Galya, who has just agreed to marry him. Zhenya's friend Pavlik comes by the apartment to pick up Zhenya and take him to the banya (a public bathhouse) for their traditional New Year's Eve bath. Zhenya and Pavlik meet their other two friends at the bath, and the foursome starts toasting Zhenya's engagement with vodka shots. Pavlik has to catch a plane to Leningrad, so the party moves to the airport, where both Zhenya and Pavlik pass out drunk while they wait for the plane. Zhenya's other two friends, themselves quite drunk, can't remember who was supposed to get on the plane, and they wind up putting Zhenya onboard by mistake.
Zhenya sleeps through the whole flight to Leningrad and then stumbles his way to a taxi. Still very drunk, he gives the taxi driver his address. Due to the uniformity of Soviet urban planning, the street names and addresses are the same, as are most of the buildings that a half-conscious Zhenya passes by while riding in the taxi. He is dropped off by the taxi driver at the Leningrad address that matches his Moscow address. Soviet architecture is so uniform that his key even opens the apartment that matches his Moscow apartment. Zhenya doesn't notice he's in the wrong apartment any more than he noticed he was in the wrong city, instead flopping down on the bed to sleep off his liquor. The situation grows more complicated when the person who actually lives in the apartment, a language and literature teacher named Nadya (Brylska), arrives home to find a strange man asleep in her bed. It grows still more complicated when Nadya's fiance Ippolit arrives to see in the New Year with Nadya and finds a strange man in her apartment.
''The Irony of Fate'' aired on Soviet television in two parts on Jan. 1, 1976. It was a massive hit, so successful that it was released in theaters later that year. It has since become a Russian holiday tradition, airing on New Year's Eve every year since. A sequel, ''The Irony of Fate 2'' (or ''The Irony of Fate: Continuation''), was released in 2007, picking up the story thirty years later.
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!!Tropes:
* AnimatedCreditsOpening: The film starts out with a cartoon in which an ambitious, creative architect sees his creative design turned into a boring rectangular apartment building by Soviet authorities, who then build exact copies of that same building everywhere. This becomes plot-relevant later, when the sameness of all the drab apartment buildings causes an inebriated Zhenya to stagger into the wrong apartment building in the wrong city.
* CutAndPasteSuburb: The apartment blocks of 1970s Soviet suburbia, so much so that a drunk Zhenya can't tell the difference between the Moscow neighborhood where he actually lives and the Leningrad neighborhood where he's dropped off.
* DisposableFiance: Galya and Ippolit, as Zhenya and Nadya fall in love over the course of a single night.
* EitherOrTitle
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The whole film takes place over less than a day, from the afternoon of New Year's Eve to the late morning of New Year's Day.
* FieryRedhead: Galya has red hair and the temper to match, and she is not having it when Zhenya calls her from Leningrad with a most unlikely story of why he stood her up.
* HangoverSensitivity: Zhenya is not at his best when an agitated Nadya yanks him out of her bed and demands that he leave.
* 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).
* NewYearHasCome: New Year's, of course, being the most important holiday on the Soviet/Russian calendar. Zhenya and Nadya wind up celebrating together after he's stuck in Leningrad (he doesn't have any money for the return flight) and Ippolit storms out in a jealous fit.
* NonSingingVoice: When Zhenya and Nadya take turns playing her guitar and singing folk songs, other actors are providing the singing.
* SameLanguageDub: Barbara Brylska was Polish. All of her dialogue was overdubbed by Valentina Talyzina, who also appears as one of Nadya's two friends that drop in.
* ShutUpKiss: The second time that Nadya's friends barge in, a big argument ensues, which Zhenya ends by planting one on Nadya's lips.
* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: Zhenya and Ippolit have one when a furious Nadya throws both of them out of her apartment.
* VodkaDrunkenski: Zhenya isn't really a drinker, which made it that much easier for him to get completely tanked with his friends at the banya.
