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Here comes a Russian fairy tale and a real classic! But not the kind of classic that can be found in the lexicon of film critics, but a popular classic. One that people love! No film in the territory of the former USSR is better known, let alone more popular! It is considered set that the entire population of the Soviet Union (and we are talking about 250 million!) have seen The Irony Of Fate! Every year on New Year's Eve The Irony Of Fate is shown again (only during Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign during the 80s this rule was suspended because in the film too much drinking is done). And so the story goes; Zhenia (Andrei Miagkov), a surgeon who lives with his mother in Moscow and suffers from all kinds of problems, is found drunk in the bathhouse on 31.12.. He was wrongly put on a plane from Moscow to St. Petersburg. Thanks to the homogeneity of Russian architecture, he takes a taxi and drives home on seemingly familiar roads. Does St. Petersburg really look exactly like Moscow? Well, further on in the text. In the very beautiful opening credits we are already prepared for it; we see the animation of an architectural design that is reduced to the essential by a functionary. In any case, Zhenia feels at home, opens up a seemingly familiar apartment and lies down on "his" couch. To be noted: Anyone who has ever been to East Berlin knows how uniform the socialist architecture was. Everyone lives in the same apartment, so ideal. It is now up to the woman who loves him to convince him that he is in St. Petersburg. Not in Moscow. That's the way the "right one" should be! The great love in Russian!