The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!

Name: The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
Genre: TV Movie, Comedy, Romance
Released: 1976-01-01
Duration: 3 h 12 min
Cast: Andrey Myagkov, Barbara Brylska, Yuriy Yakovlev, Aleksandr Shirvindt, Georgi Burkov

1976, Russian. Directed by Eldar Ryazanov.

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...

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Runtime: 3h 12m
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Language: Russian
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Released: 1 January 1976
Original title: Ирония судьбы, или С легким паром!
Country: Soviet Union
Written by: Emil Braginskiy, Eldar Ryazanov

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Next in the series: The Irony of Fate: Continuation (2007).

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Our verdict is Worth the Hype: Clear your evening for this. It scores 7.3/10 from 288 TMDB viewer ratings.

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The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! runs 192 minutes (3h 12m).

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The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1976. (Checked 14 November 2026.)

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Who directed The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!?

The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (1976) was directed by Eldar Ryazanov and stars Andrey Myagkov, Barbara Brylska, Yuriy Yakovlev.

What is The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! based on?

The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! is adapted from a novel.