About the title
For many viewers, this film has for decades been the embodiment of the most wonderful winter holiday, filled with the scents of fresh pine and oranges, and the sound of a champagne cork popping "hussar-style." "Irony of Fate" has become for us a symbol of New Year's Eve, a night in which there is always room for magic. Magic indeed, because finding one's fate through a random, utterly unimaginable coincidence — what is that, if not the greatest of miracles? After all, in most cases, what we call coincidences is the language of God... And so, on December 31, four young men quite content with their lives decide to visit the bathhouse...
