The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!

The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!

Directed by Eldar Ryazanov

Produced by Mosfilm

1976192 min7.3 / 10

A warm, playful romantic comedy built on a delightful premise of mistaken identity and fate, where drunken mishap becomes the catalyst for unexpected love.

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...

Questions people ask

  • Does The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! end with hope? Yes, very. More hopeful than 90% of films.

  • Is The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! easy watching? Yes. More comforting than 88% of films.

  • Is The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! violent? Barely. Less violent than 86% of films.

  • Is The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! scary? Barely. Less frightening than 76% of films.

  • Is The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! sad? Not especially. Less sad than 73% of films.

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54/ 100

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Familiar shape, done well.

Rarity11

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Surprise95

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Love80

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