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In the 90s I had a girlfriend from Moscow and very early on she played the film Irony of Fate[1] for me, to help explain Russian culture. It is a classic comed
by tacon 10y ago
In the 90s I had a girlfriend from Moscow and very early on she played the film Irony of Fate[1] for me, to help explain Russian culture. It is a classic comedy based on how identical the housing blocks were at the time. A man gets drunk, gets on a plane, forgets which city he is in (Moscow or Leningrad/St. Petersburg), and goes to an identical street in the wrong city, opening an identical door with the same key. Hilarity ensues.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irony_of_Fate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irony_of_Fate
- HenryBemis 10y agothat's one of the loveliest comedies that you can watch every year around Christmas time in Russian tv... the "Serendipity" of our times if you may!
- cr1895 10y agoTariverdiev's score of this film has recently been released, and it's really nice: https://tariverdiev.bandcamp.com/album/the-irony-of-fate-original-score https://tariverdiev.bandcamp.com/album/the-irony-of-fate-ori... I think my favorite track is "Along My Street for Many Years."
- phillc73 10y agoMy wife and I usually watch it at Christmas. I always make it through the first part, but somehow never the second.