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In the USSR, these movies beat all box office records and quotes from the movies have entered the language as popular catchphrases. And, when shown on television, they still attract high ratings to this day.
Comparing the Soviet ‘The Irony of Fate’ cast with that of the upcoming Hollywood remake (PHOTOS) Eldar Ryazanov / Mosfilm Film Studio, 1976; dominick D (CC BY-SA 2.0) The remake of the iconic Soviet comedy is getting a Hollywood makeover. Let’s check out the casting choices and see how they compare to the original actors!
‘Ironiya Sudby’, aka ‘The Irony of Fate’, was made in 1976 and is considered Russia’s main “New Year’s Eve movie” - a bit like Home Alone is a Christmas movie for the United States. It unites the entire post-Soviet sphere.
The story revolves around a man, who, after having too much fun with his friends at a sauna on New Year’s Eve mistakenly gets on a plane and finds himself in another city, in someone else’s apartment, one that looks an awful lot like his own (which is really a satirical comment on the building style of the era, with its endless panel blocks). There, he discovers that “his” apartment actually belo
How a Soviet family raised a lion Valery Shustov/Sputnik; Yu. Rakhil, S. Kuleshov/TASS Imagine the scene: It is morning and a family is having breakfast - the mother, father and their children are drinking tea, but at the head of the table sits a lion, with a basin of raw meat in front of him. This is the story of how an ordinary Soviet family took in a sick lion cub and how it all ended.
Lev Lvovich Berberov, his wife Nina and their two children - Eva and Roma [Roman] - lived in a spacious 100 sq. m. apartment in Soviet Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan). Lev worked as an architect, but all his life he had loved wild animals - at different times he kept cats, dogs, parrots, hedgehogs, raccoons and snakes, and even a wolf and puma lived in his apartment for a time, according to an interview his wife Nina gave to the Argumenty i Fakty weekly.