Ирония судьбы, или С легким паром! (мини-сериал)

"What muck this your jellied fish" and "Oh, cushy gone" — a phrase that was not in the script of the film. This was an improvisation by Yuri Yakovlev. The fish was really crappy, and the warm water in the pavilion "Mosfilm" — a rare phenomenon.

Eldar Ryazanov played in the film one of his typical episodic directorial roles — a passenger in the aircraft, which constantly falls sleeping Lukashin. The stories of the same Ryazanov, he was very upset, when viewing a recorded scene found that the scene through his not rare more hair reveals bald head.

The shooting took place in the apartment panel house, located in Moscow at the address: Prospekt Vernadskogo, 125. This house, however, built on a pilot project implemented in only three houses on this street. Shooting interior apartment in Leningrad took place in the house 113. Now the ground floor houses 125 Theatre is on the South-West. In 2003, on the wall 125 at the Vernadsky Prospekt was opened a plaque with images of Barbara and Andrew Brylska Myagkova. However, this sign often steal, and her need to recover.

Ryazanov very carefully looked for the lead actors. Zhenya Lukashin really wanted to play Andrei Mironov, but Ryazanov only saw him in the image of Hippolytus. Lukashin could be also Pyotr Velyaminov and Stanislav Lyubshin.

In addition to cinepremiere 31 December 1975, the film was released in theaters on 16 Aug 1976.

Best film on interrogation of magazine "Soviet screen" in 1977.

The series shorter by almost half an hour — duration is 155 minutes.

For the role of Nadia Sheveleva auditioned: Lyudmila Gurchenko, Svetlana Nemolyaeva, Antonina Shuranova, actress of the Kirov drama theatre, Marimon and others. Tariverdiev long and hard to persuade the Director to invite Alisa Freindlich. And then I remembered Ryazanov Polish melodrama "the Anatomy of love" where the main female role was played by Barbara Brylska. He got her phone and called her to Warsaw. Reading the script, Barbara flew out to audition in Moscow. Her version of the role was the most convincing.

The famous scene in the bath where before the New year, gather friends, were removed after may day holidays. Under the stairs in one of the corridors of "Mosfilm" set of bath benches and scales.

In the beginning of the movie Eugene and Gale in conversation several times mentioned katarena who has invited them to itself to celebrate the New year. This name sounds also in another film Ryazanov — "Forgotten melody for flute", where it seems the hero of Leonid Filatov. Presumably, thus, Eldar Ryazanov wanted to immortalize his student friend, the film Director Basil Katanyan, with which in the 50s as a cameraman filming documentaries.

Almost immediately after leaving Eugene Hippolyte includes the TV film "Straw hat" (1974), first aired December 31, 1974, the first program of the CG of the Soviet Union, which determines the duration of the "Twist of fate": the heroes meet the new 1975. Starring in "Straw hat" was played by Andrey Mironov, Lyudmila Gurchenko. They auditioned for the main role in "twist of fate".