SPIELFILM Die Ironie des Schicksals, oder genieße Dein Bad

The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (Ironiya sudby, ili S legkim parom!)

“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)…