The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!

About The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!

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.

Eldar Ryazanov's The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! is a 1976 comedy romance film. Its themes are new year's eve, drunk, new year, and sauna.

Andrey Myagkov takes the lead as Zhenya Lukashin, Barbara Brylska as Nadia Sheveleva, Yuriy Yakovlev as Hippolytus Georgievich, and Aleksandr Shirvindt as Pavel. Released in January 1976, it runs 192 minutes.

The screenplay is by Eldar Ryazanov and Emil Braginskiy. It is adapted from a novel.

Forrest Gump, The Godfather Part II, and The Wedding Date make useful companions to The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!, all filed under friendship. TMDB voters put it at 7.2 out of 10 across 284 votes.