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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 229,590 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Eldar Ryazanov is the 324th most popular film director (up from 403rd in 2019), the 597th most popular biography from Russia (up from 687th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Film Director.

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  • 56.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Eldar Ryazanov ranks 324 out of 1,581. Before him are Paolo Sorrentino, Menahem Golan, Claude Sautet, Jiří Trnka, Francis Veber, and Kinji Fukasaku. After him are Tengiz Abuladze, Saul Bass, Elem Klimov, Jerome Robbins, Jan de Bont, and Marco Bellocchio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Eldar Ryazanov ranks 95. Before him are Lee Grant, Ram Narayan, Pierre Alechinsky, Günter Guillaume, Alfredo Kraus, and Bob Fosse. After him are Paul Badura-Skoda, R. D. Laing, Dick Bruna, Robert Plutchik, François Furet, and Vasile Milea. Among people deceased in 2015, Eldar Ryazanov ranks 84. Before him are Árpád Göncz, Khaled al-Asaad, Dettmar Cramer, Wayne Dyer, Cabu, and Yaşar Kemal. After him are Licio Gelli, Ruth Rendell, Chantal Akerman, Akiyuki Nosaka, Franzl Lang, and Rose Francine Rogombé.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Eldar Ryazanov ranks 597 out of 3,262. Before him are Valery Chkalov (1904), Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859), Yevgenia Ginzburg (1904), Tanya Savicheva (1930), Agrippina Vaganova (1879), and Xenia of Saint Petersburg (1719). After him are Konstantin Korovin (1861), Mikhail Zoshchenko (1894), Vladimir Arsenyev (1872), Elem Klimov (1933), Sergey Sazonov (1860), and Nikolai Polikarpov (1892).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Eldar Ryazanov ranks 9. Before him are Andrei Konchalovsky (1937), Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874), Nikita Mikhalkov (1945), Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), Lev Kuleshov (1899), and Leonid Gaidai (1923). After him are Elem Klimov (1933), Ladislas Starevich (1882), Yuri Norstein (1941), Alexander Sokurov (1951), Grigori Aleksandrov (1903), and Mikhail Romm (1901).

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Filmography

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