I'm pretty sure it's more like 35+ years. Soviet Union has been gone for 23 years now. It's a Soviet love story where a guy gets so drunk with his buddies that

I'm pretty sure it's more like 35+ years. Soviet Union has been gone for 23 years now. It's a Soviet love story where a guy gets so drunk with his buddies that he ends up getting on the plane instead of his friend and goes to another city. Wakes up in the airport, calls a cab, gives him his street address and is dropped off at an identical street with identical apartment building and opens the door with his key, to someone else's apartment. Unless you lived during those times, it's hard to understand how everything could be nearly identical, but the equality of that was a key soviet ideal. The movie pokes fun at how ridiculous that really is, but at the same time has a love story form in those conditions. I doubt that narrative would have been allowed even a decade earlier.