Irony of fate is one of the most popular and successful Soviet movies. The story – simultaneously a comedy and a love drama – touches the theme of the panel buildings from the beginning itself. The uniformity of the blocks and apartments creates the story itself. The main character – Zhenya passes drunk and after a bunch of mistakes ends up not in front of his own home in Moscow – but in front of a building on the same address, who looks exactly the same, but in Saint Petersburg. Even the key fits to the apartment on the same floor, and still not adequate, he goes to sleep in the apartment, who doesn’t belong to him. There, he will meet his future love.

1975, USSR, fiction

Duration: 184 min.

Language: Russian

Subtitles: Bulgarian

This film screening has been made possibly with the kind support of the Russian Cultural Centre in Sofia.