Day 1:The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!

So, Today I watch the 1970's Soviet comedy, The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! in my Russian Cinema class. This was the first Russian film I have ever seen and I found it very entertaining. In the begining they showed the opening credits of the film. It showed that all the architecture of Russian homes is exactly the same, which helped when watching the film. The main character is Zhenya who gets totally wasted and sent on the wrong plane to Leningrad. He thinks he is at his home which is the same architecture as all the other homes, but he is really at Nadya's house. The housing is culturally perculiar to the Russians and not the United States. The humor in this Russian film is really sarcastic and over exaggerated, where as American films tend to have less noticable and more realistic humor, unless a character is totally out there like Zhenya. I am excited to watch the rest of the film tomorrow