The Irony of Fate 2

Infobox Film
name = Irony of Fate 2


image_size =
caption = US Theatrical Poster
director = Timur Bekmambetov
producer = Anatoli Maksimov
writer = Timur Bekmambetov|Alexey Slapovskiy
narrator =
starring = Andrey Miagkov
Barbara Brylska
Yuri Yakovlev
Konstantin Habensky
Elizaveta Boyarskaya
Sergey Bezrukov
music = Yuri Poteyenko
Michael Tariverdiev
cinematography = Sergey Trofimov
editing =
distributor = flagicon|RUS Channel One
flagicon|RUS Mosfilm
flagicon|US New Line Cinema
released = Start date|2007|12|21
runtime = 115 min.
country = RUS
language = Russian/Finnish
budget = $5,000,000
gross =
preceded_by = Irony of Fate
followed_by =
website = http://www.ironiasudbi.ru/
amg_id = 1:431519
imdb_id = 0987918

Irony of Fate 2 or The Irony of Fate: Continuation ( _ru. Ирония судьбы: Продолжение) is a fy|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.

Plot summary

Characters of the first film now have children, who managed to get into the same situation as their parents many years ago.

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 Habensky as "Konstantin Evgeniyevich Lukashin (or Kostya)"
* Elizaveta Boyarskaya as "Nadya Evgenyevna Sheveleva"
* Sergey Bezrukov as "Irakliy"

upporting 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"

Trivia

* Mila Jovovich was suggested by scriptwriter for the role of Nadya Jr. but she declined after reading the screenplay. [http://www.newsru.com/cinema/01nov2006/irony.html]
* 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.