Every New Year… No, we do not go to the bathhouse with friends; rather, the entire vast country watches «The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!» And it must be said, we watch it with pleasure! It seems everyone says: «How much longer can we watch the same thing for more than a quarter of a century…» But as soon as you accidentally switch to the channel showing this movie, its magic captivates you and will not let you watch anything else. What is it—a habit, the special magic of New Year, or the impossibility of tearing yourself away from a brilliant masterpiece? Hardly anyone can answer this question with certainty. A foreign actress who became one of our own, magnificent songs based on poems by our finest poets, love and hope for happiness still unknown—this is precisely the movie «The Irony of Fate». And what if you watch this movie not on New Year, but right now, and feel all the unspoken charm of this movie, and once again learn that love can come just like that, in the form of a drunken stranger, precisely when the decision has already been made to tie one’s fate to another man—reliable and faithful, yet suddenly found to be unnecessary—when it becomes clear what love itself is like. And once again hear the logical reasoning of the friends of the main character, Zhenya Lukashin, according to which he set off to fly to the place where he was not expected…
