| The Irony of Fate 2 | |
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| Directed by | Тимур Бекмамбетов |
| Produced by | Anatoli Maksimov |
| Written by | Тимур Бекмамбетов 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 and Mosfilm US New Line Cinema |
| Release date(s) | December 21, 2007 |
| Running time | 115 min. |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian/Finnish |
| Budget | $5,000,000 |
| Box office | $55,549,000 |
'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 Тимур Бекмамбетов based on a screenplay by Alexey Slapovskiy produced by Channel One and released by Mosfilm. It is a direct sequel of the first 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. This film was the highest-grossing within Russia up until the release of Avatar in Russia.
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Characters of the first film now have children, who managed to get into the same situation as their parents many years ago. However, this story isn't just a remake of the original movie. In the first part all Lukashin's adventures were accidental and here everything is done according to a plan produced by Pavlik (a friend of Lukashin's). His idea is to improve the contemporary state of his friend Evgeniy being lonely. To this end he dispatches Lukashin's son Kostya to Petersburg where he acts in the same manner as his father 30 years ago. In the flat 12 he meets Nadejda (actually she is a daughter of Nadejda from the first movie). She has a fiancé called Iracliy, a businessman. Kostantin's task is to lure Iracliy away from the flat, then wait for Nadejda's mother coming and in the end he makes her to call Evgeniy Lukashin. Pavlik persuades Evgeniy to go to Petersburg. Then the plot turns out to be a story of two fights for a woman: Konstantin vs Irakliy and Evgeniy vs Ippolit. Finally Lukashins win this competition because Irakliy turns out to be too dull for Nadya and Nadejda understands that she has never been in love with Ippolit.
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