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 249,846 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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  • 250k

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  • 63.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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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