The Irony of Fate. The Sequel (2007) on Netflix
Thirty years after Zhenya and Nadya broke up, Zhenya's friends send his son Kostya to St. Petersburg. In flat 12 he meets Nadya, whose fiancé Irakliy plans to propose.
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Plot summary
Zhenya and Nadya met thirty years earlier and broke up; Nadya moved to Leningrad and went back to Ippolit, and Zhenya went back to Galya. Kostya is the son of Zhenya and Galya, and Nadya is the daughter of Nadya and Ippolit. On New Year's Eve Kostya arrives in St. Petersburg from a medical conference and reaches flat 12, where Nadya lives. Her fiancé, the businessman Irakliy, means to propose to her that same day. Kostya's task is to draw Irakliy away from the flat and wait for Nadya's mother, who is to call Evgeniy Lukashin; Zhenya's friend then urges him to travel to St. Petersburg.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Irony of Fate. The Sequel (2007)
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- Milla Jovovich was invited to play Nadya in the sequel but turned it down because she was worried about acting in Russian, her main language being English. Four years later she did act in Russian, in the 2011 film Lucky Trouble alongside Konstantin Khabensky.
- Almost all the leads from the original The Irony of Fate returned for the 2007 sequel: Georgi Burkov had died in 1990, Liya Akhedzhakova refused to take part, and Olga Naumenko managed to appear in only one episode.
- The Irony of Fate 2 opened on 21 December 2007 in 903 theatres across Russia, the widest opening the country had seen at the time.
