The Irony of Fate 2
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| Irony of Fate 2 | |
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| Directed by | Timur Bekmambetov |
| Produced by | Anatoli Maksimov |
| Written by | Timur Bekmambetov |
| Starring | Andrey Miagkov Barbara Brylska Yuri Yakovlev Konstantin Habensky Elizaveta Boyarskaya Sergey Bezrukov |
| Music by | Yuri Poteyenko Michael Tariverdiev |
| Cinematography | Sergey Trofimov |
| Distributed by | Channel One Mosfilm  New Line Cinema  |
| Release date(s) | December 21, 2007 |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian, Finnish |
| Budget | $5,000,000 |
| Preceded by | Irony of Fate |
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| IMDb profile | |
Irony of Fate 2 or The Irony of Fate: Continuation (Russian: Ирония судьбы: Продолжение) 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. Film budget - $5,000,000. It is at once a sequel and a remake of the first Irony of Fate.
First press release about the plans to create a sequel went after the 30 years jubilee of the previous picture, in 2005.
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[edit] Plot summary
Characters of the first film now have children, who managed to get into the same situation as their parents many years ago.
[edit] Cast
[edit] Main cast
- Andrey Myagkov as Evgeniy Mikhaylovich Lukashin (or Zhenya)
- Barbara Brylska as Nadezhda Vasilyevna Sheveleva (or Nadya)
- Yuri Yakovlev as Ippolit Georgievich
- Konstantin Habensky as Konstantin Evgeniyevich Lukashin (or Kostya)
- Elizaveta Boyarskaya as Nadya Sheveleva, Jr.
- Sergey Bezrukov as Irakliy
[edit] Supporting cast
- Dato Bakhtadze as Artur
- Ville Haapasalo as Drunken finn
- Roman Madyanov as Militsioner
- Vladimir Putin as President (actually, it's a TV footage)
- Sergei Rubeko as Man with New-Year-tree
- Eldar Ryazanov as Kostya's neighbor in plane (cameo role)
- Anna Semenovich as Woman with kid
- Valentina Talyzina as Nadya's friend
- Viktor Verzhbitsky as Homeless mystery man
- Mikhail Yefremov as Ded Moroz
- Yevgeniya Dobrovolskaya as Snegurochka
[edit] Trivia
- Mila Jovovich was suggested by scriptwriter for the role of Nadya Jr. but she declined after reading the screenplay. [1]
- Film is heavy packed by product placement by Nokia, Toyota, Calve, Beeline, Aeroflot, Faberlic and even the vodka brand Russian Standart
- Almost every frame of the film emphatically uses the combination of red and blue (wineglasses on the table, New Year's Tree decorations, the red door of the flat with a blue wall, etc). Same colors are on the baloons with the names of the main characters.
- Flat no. 13 where all the main action took place the authors of the film called "Fairy tale" (see film bonus materials) and the walls inside are covered with "magic things".
- The date on the cracker (photo of which appeared in the bonus materials for the film) is 24.12.2006. It may be a possibly reference that the film action is set on the night before Christmas, not New Year's Eve.
