THE IRONY OF FATE ENGLISH SUBTITLES PART 1 OF 2 1/11
THE IRONY OF FATE ENGLISH SUBTITLES PART 1 OF 2 1/11 , The Irony Of Fate Or Enjoy Your Bath English subtitles Part 1 of 2 episode 1 of 11 The Irony Of Fate original title: Ирония судьбы или С лёгким паром! in transcription: Ironiya Sudby ili S Lyogkim Parom is a Soviet comedy drama directed by Eldar Ryazanov as a made for TV movie The screenplay was written by Emil Braginsky and Ryazanov loosely based on Ryazanovs 1971 play Once on New Years Eve Russian: Однажды в новогоднюю ночь The movie was filmed in 1975 at Mosfilm Simultaneously a screwball comedy and a love story tinged with sadness the film is traditionally broadcast in Russia and some other former Soviet republics every New Years Eve It is as fondly viewed every year as the American film Its a Wonderful Life is during the Christmas holidays This modestly budgeted made for TV romantic comedy became one of the most popular films in the former Soviet Union and a staple of TV broadcasts on New Years Eve Its based on the premise that modern apartment complexes look so much alike that one cannot distinguish one city from another On New Years Eve Muscovite Yevgeny Lukashin finally dares to make a marriage proposal to Galya They plan to celebrate the New Year together quietly but Lukashins friends convince him that first he should attend their annual meeting at a bathhouse The meeting quickly turns into an improvisational bachelor party for Yevgeny Having consumed large amounts of alcohol they cannot remember which one of them was supposed to fly to Leningrad to meet his wife So they put the sleepy Lukashin on a plane Upon his arrival in the Leningrad airport Yevgeny gives the taxi driver his Moscow street address and the cab takes him to an apartment complex located on a street with the same name The building looks very much like his own so Lukashin still not quite sober does not realize that he is in another city He enters someone elses apartment because his key fits the door lock and he quickly falls asleep on a couch ======================= Director Eldar Ryazanov Writers: Emil Braginsky and Eldar Ryazanov Cast * Andrey Myagkov as Zhenya * Barbara Brylska as Nadya * Yuri Yakovlev as Ippolit * Aleksandr Shirvindt as Pavel Zhenyas friend * Georgy Burkov as Misha Zhenyas friend * Liya Akhedzhakova as Tanya Nadyas friend * Aleksandr Belyavsky as Sasha Zhenyas friend * Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya as Zhenyas mother * Olga Naumenko as Galya * Gotlib Roninson as Zhenyas neighbour at the airport * Eldar Ryazanov as Zhenyas neighbour in the plane * Lyubov Sokolova as Nadyas mother * Valentina Talyzina as Valya Nadyas friend; Nadyas voice The score to the film was composed by Mikael Tariverdiyev and includes both orchestral background music and songs in the style of the authors song movement sung by several of the characters The strikingly melancholy lyrics of the songs were written by some of Russias greatest twentieth century poets: Boris Pasternak Marina Tsvetayeva Bella Akhmadulina as well as the songwriter and poet Bulat Okudzhava The singing voices of the characters were dubbed by the now well known vocalists Sergey Nikitin and Alla Pugacheva © MOSFILM 1975 ======================== From Wikipedia: en wikipedia org/wiki/Irony of Fate Internet Movie Database: www imdb com/title/tt0073179/ and The New York Times: movies nytimes com/movie/101611/The Irony Of Fate Or Enjoy Your Bath/overview ======================== English subtitles from original DVD