FILM DIRECTOR

Eldar Ryazanov

1927 - 2015

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Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov (Russian: Эльдар Александрович Рязанов; 18 November 1927 – 30 November 2015) was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, poet, actor and pedagogue whose popular comedies, satirizing the daily life of the Soviet Union and Russia, are celebrated throughout the former Soviet Union and former Warsaw Pact countries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eldar Ryazanov has received more than 243,005 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Eldar Ryazanov is the 311th most popular film director (up from 324th in 2019), the 571st most popular biography from Russia (up from 596th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Eldar Ryazanov ranks 311 out of 2,041. Before him are Philippe de Broca, Jim Henson, Paul Schrader, Krzysztof Zanussi, Gaspar Noé, and Tengiz Abuladze. After him are Frank Borzage, Jiří Trnka, Robert Frank, Darren Aronofsky, George Miller, and Jack L. Warner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Eldar Ryazanov ranks 96. Before him are R. D. Laing, Robert Shaw, Odvar Nordli, Ram Narayan, Dana Elcar, and Dick Bruna. After him are Eartha Kitt, Vernon L. Smith, Jorge Batlle, Hans Schäfer, Martin Walser, and Nguyễn Khánh. Among people deceased in 2015, Eldar Ryazanov ranks 88. Before him are Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Jin Youzhi, Ruth Rendell, Akiyuki Nosaka, Shigeru Mizuki, and Yaşar Kemal. After him are Egon Bahr, Kemal Monteno, Satoru Iwata, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, Jenő Buzánszky, and Ornette Coleman.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Eldar Ryazanov ranks 571 out of 3,761. Before him are Nicolas de Staël (1914), Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova (1835), Uliana of Tver (1325), Matvei Zakharov (1898), Nikolai Medtner (1879), and Yury Solomin (1935). After him are Lyubov Orlova (1902), Mikhail Lazarev (1788), Alexander Pokryshkin (1913), Galina Vishnevskaya (1926), Fedor Tokarev (1871), and Boris Kustodiev (1878).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Eldar Ryazanov ranks 11. Before him are Andrei Konchalovsky (1937), Genndy Tartakovsky (1970), Lev Kuleshov (1899), Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), Leonid Gaidai (1923), and Elem Klimov (1933). After him are Ladislas Starevich (1882), Alexander Sokurov (1951), Yuri Norstein (1941), Grigori Aleksandrov (1903), Gleb Panfilov (1934), and Boris Barnet (1902).

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Filmography

Office Romance
Director
Anatoly Novoseltsev is a mousy single father and office stumblebum working at a statistics bureau in Moscow. In the hopes of being promoted, he is coaxed into charming his disagreeable and seemingly unfeeling boss, Ludmila Kalugina, or "Meany" as she's otherwise known by her subordinates. Helped by his colleagues Olya and Yura, Anatoly attempts to ease the yoke of Ms. Kalugina, and what follows in the wake of his graceless manoeuvres is completely unforeseen, as he awakens a side to her not yet known, even to herself..
Oct 26o 19778 / 10
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
Director
A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Year's Eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes. Zhenya wakes up at Leningrad airport. Believing that he is still in Moscow he takes a taxi and goes home. The street name, building and even apartment number, the way an apartment complex looks the same and the key coincide completely - just typical Soviet-type 'economy' architecture. Imagine the surprise of Nadya when she enters her apartment and finds a man without trousers in her bed. What's more - Nadya's fiancé also finds him there...
Dec 31o 19757.4 / 10
Beware of the Car!
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An insurance agent who moonlights as a carthief steals cars various crooks and never from the common people. He sells the stolen cars and gives the money to charity. His best friend, a cop, is assigned to bring in this modern robin hood.
May 22o 19667.6 / 10