The Irony of Fate 2
| The Irony of Fate 2 | |
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| Directed by | Timur Bekmambetov |
| Produced by | Anatoli Maksimov |
| Written by |
Timur Bekmambetov Alexey Slapovskiy |
| Starring |
Andrey Myagkov Barbara Brylska Yuri Yakovlev Konstantin Habensky Elizaveta Boyarskaya Sergey Bezrukov |
| Music by |
Yuri Poteyenko Michael Tariverdiev |
| Cinematography | Sergey Trofimov |
| Distributed by |
Russia Channel One, Bazelevs Company and Mosfilm US New Line Cinema |
Release dates |
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Running time | 115 min. |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian/Finnish |
| Budget | $5,000,000 |
| Box office | $55,639,114[1] |
The Irony of Fate 2 or The Irony of Fate: Continuation (Russian: Ирония Судьбы. Продолжение; Ironiya sud’by. Prodolzheniye) is a 2007 Russian romantic comedy film directed by Timur Bekmambetov based on a screenplay by Alexey Slapovskiy produced by Channel One and released by Mosfilm. It is a direct sequel of the first The Irony of Fate.
It was originally rumored to be put in production in a press release, dedicated to the original movie's 30th anniversary in 2005.
Irony of Fate earned $55,000,000 in total from its gross box-office release, with $49,000,000 coming from the Russian box-office alone.
Plot
The characters from the first film now have children, who have managed to get into the same situation as their parents many years ago. However, the story is not simply a remake of the original movie. All of the adventures were accidental, but here everything is done according to a plan thought up by a friend of Lukashin.
Pavlik's idea is to help his friend, Evenly, with his loneliness so he dispatches Lukashin's son to St. Petersburg, where he acts in the same manner as his father 30 years ago. In flat 12, he meets Nadezhda, who is actually the daughter of Nadezhda from the first film. She has a fiancé called Irakliy, a businessman. Kostantin's task is to lure Iracliy away from the flat and then wait for Nadezhda's mother to come; he then makes her call Evgeniy Lukashin. Pavlik persuades Evgeniy to go to St Petersburg.
The plot becomes a story of two fights over a woman: Konstantin vs. Irakliy and Evgeniy vs. Ippolit. Finally, Lukashins win the competition, because Irakliy turns out to be too dull for Nadya, and Nadezhda understands that she was never in love with Ippolit.
Cast
Main cast
- Andrey Myagkov as Evgeniy Mikhaylovich Lukashin (or Zhenya)
- Barbara Brylska as Nadezhda Vasilyevna Sheveleva (or Nadya)
- Yuri Yakovlev as Ippolit Georgievich
- Konstantin Khabensky as Kostya (Konstantin Evgeniyevich) Lukashin (the son of Evgeniy)
- Elizaveta Boyarskaya as Nadya (Nadezhda Ippolitovna) Sheveleva (the daughter of Ippolit and Nadezhda)
- Sergey Bezrukov as Irakliy Petrovich Izmaylov
Supporting cast
- Dato Bakhtadze as Artur
- Ramaz Chkhikvadze Jr. as Artur's son
- Ville Haapasalo as the drunken Finn
- Roman Madyanov as the police officer
- Vladimir Putin as himself (TV footage)
- Sergei Rubeko as the man with the New Year tree
- Eldar Ryazanov as Konstantin's seatmate in the plane (cameo role)
- Anna Semenovich as the woman at the airport
- Valentina Talyzina as Valya, Nadezhda's friend
- Viktor Verzhbitsky as the mystery man at the bus stop
- Mikhail Olegovich Yefremov as Ded Moroz
- Yevgeniya Dobrovolskaya as Snegurochka