Irony of Fate part 1

In Irony of Fate: Part One I have been very surprised. Knowing what I do about the Cold War and this time frame, this is not the type of movie I thought we would be watching. I was surprised to find this movie to be a comedy of sorts. The doctor, Zhenya, goes to a bath house with his friends to clean up for the New Year, and they end up getting drunk. Following these events he ends up in Moscow in a stranger’s flat he believes to be his own. Upon her return to her apartment, Nadya comes to find Zhenya passed out in her bed. They begin to argue back and forth on who is in the wrong place and who is not. To me this is not the type of film I would picture taking place during the mid 1970s. I had always pictured their movies during this time to be more aimed toward propaganda films rather than comedy.