The Irony of Fate: Continuation

The Irony of Fate: Continuation (2007)

Ирония судьбы. Продолжение

Thirty years have passed since Zhenya and Nadya met—they broke up, and Nadya moved to Leningrad. The friends still go to the bathhouse, and now they are joined by Konstantin, Zhenya's son. Uncle Pasha and Uncle Sasha persuade Kostya to arrange a New Year's miracle for his father and send him to St. Petersburg. Nadya's daughter lives at that very address, and on the same day, her fiancé, Irakli, is planning to propose to her.

Date of release
2007-12-21
TMDB
4.8 / 10 (102)
Runtime
2h 5m
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Director
Timur Bekmambetov
Collection
The Irony of Fate Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $55.6M
  • Budget: $5M
  • Earned 11.1× its budget

The Irony of Fate 2 or The Irony of Fate: Continuation is a 2007 Russian romantic comedy film directed by Timur Bekmambetov based on a screenplay by Aleksey Slapovsky produced by Channel One and released by Mosfilm. It is a direct sequel of the first The Irony of Fate.

Production

Almost all of the lead actors from the first film appeared in the sequel, except for Georgi Burkov, Liya Akhedzhakova and Olga Naumenko.

Burkov died in 1990. Akhedzhakova refused to take part in the film. Naumenko agreed to the filming, but managed to be in only one episode. Later, her schedule did not coincide with the director's and further shooting did not take place which led to her being cut from the final version of the film.

Initially Milla Jovovich was invited for the role of Nadya, but she read the script and refused. In an interview Jovovich stated that she declined to appear in the film because she was apprehensive about acting in Russian, because her main language is English. However four years later she did act in Russian — in the 2011 film Lucky Trouble alongside Khabensky, also produced by Bekmambetov.

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